STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University administrator and faculty member reckons with the contradictions of ...

Richard Russo, whose class-based novels are often based in upstate New York, is out with a collection of essays called “Life and Art.” “Aspiring writers should appreciate the advice Russo ...

Nino Benvenuti, an Italian former boxer who won gold at his home Olympics in 1960 before earning world championship titles as ...

Cassius Clay belonged to slaveholders ... kids from Kinshasa to Kentucky who hear his story and stand taller. He redefined greatness not as trophies amassed but as lives altered.

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius ... about this Kentucky planter, known as "the Lion of White Hall." Clay, who was the son of ...

Get to know Muhammad Ali and the city that made him at these six Louisville locations In the summer of 1960, eighteen-year-old Cassius Clay traveled from his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky ...

Cassius Clay is Hercules, struggling through the twelve ... and lost only eight. He won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves championships, two national A.A.U. titles.

Kentucky has always punched beyond its weight ... after the famous Lexington abolitionist who was a cousin of the Senator. Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 after he converted ...

He would make his home in Kentucky and marry a free African-American woman. The couple started a family, and one of their daughters was Odessa Lee Grady. Odessa met and married Cassius Clay ...

Named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr after his father ... The funeral will take place in Ali's home town of Louisville, Kentucky.