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In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known--Muhammad Ali, George Fo
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Muhammad Ali's personal physician and broadcaster Ferdie Pacheco recounts pivotal moments from boxing history, from The Long Count in the Dempsey-Tunney match o
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George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. Ten years later, the two men simultaneously staged comebacks, demons
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One critical priority of the discipline of Africana studies is applied memory, specifically, how the record of the culture’s survival and agency reveals usabl
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In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world