Tag: Muhammad Ali
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Wife of Muhammad Ali continues to carry the light of compassion
“I met Muhammad when I was 6 years old,” Yolanda Ali remembers. “I knew then that there was something special about him. Just the way he carried himself, the way he treated people.” Yolanda Ali would eventually marry the man who graced the cover of seemingly every magazine throughout a career that took him from…
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Former Colorado College running back, NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Steve Sabol was the subject of a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in November 1965. That issue, which featured Muhammad Ali on the cover of the weekly magazine, told the story of how Sabol, a Colorado College running back via Philadelphia marketed himself as “The Tot from Possum Trot,” a fictional town in Mississippi, “The…
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The O.J. Simpson verdict and coming to terms with my white privilege | BARTELS
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Twenty-five years ago, the nation sat glued to its TV set to await the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. The jury had come in so quickly and the evidence was so overwhelming that some legal commentators speculated the Black football star would be found…