Sports fans in the burgeoning town of Hilton Head used to tune into their TVs to watch men trade jabs in the boxing ring, but ...

Patterson was a poster boy for black integration while Liston stood as a totem of black alienation. Where Patterson was sensitive and shy, Liston was angry and malevolent. Thus the stage was set for ...

Inside a North Hollywood police precinct late on March 9, 1977, before the cops began questioning her about her father, Carol Steindler noticed a young woman sitting outside an office. The word ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University administrator and faculty member reckons with the contradictions of America’s antislavery movement in a forthcoming biography of U.S. Civil War figure ...

In 2015, following the 50th anniversary of the Phantom Punch, Charlie Hewitt and Tom Platz started kicking the idea around. That punch was no phantom to Platz. He was there, a seventh-grader ...

"was in sharp contrast with the earlier despicable black power-black gloved demonstration of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic victory stand and the anti-Vietnam stand of Cassius Clay." ...

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Sixty years ago today, a 23-year-old named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, stood over world ...

It remains England’s only World Cup victory. Before Muhammad Ali echoed through history, 18-year-old Cassius Clay introduced himself at the Rome Olympics. He went through opponents in the light ...

In that fight, Ali — then boxing under his birth name of Cassius Clay — was an underdog and Liston was the world champion. Ali won the fight and the title when Liston failed to answer the bell ...

Reverse-Angle Double Vision: The Comet/Poppea Paired overlapping operas, performed for an audience that’s in the wings instead of the seats. endings 12:33 p.m. 28 Years Later’s Wild ...