Ali, who was born Cassius Clay in 1942 and became Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, refused to be drafted into service during the Vietnam War, which effectively ended his ...

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius Clay's connections to Coles County during the Mattoon Rotary Club meeting on July 21.

Watch Chany Yemiru appraise Muhammad Ali & Cassius Clay Sr.-signed books in Living History Farms, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.

In this scene, Cassius Clay, played by Aquil Ocacio, left, makes his final victorious punch during the Olympics against Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, played by Brendan Vanofferen.

“And in this Corner: Cassius Clay” runs Feb. 21 through March 2 at the Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave.

Marjorie Pulliam Gustine died at home in the early hours of Wednesday morning Feb. 5, 2025. There will be no funeral as she has donated her body to Science, the ultimate gift to future generations ...

Directed by Regina King, the film is based entirely on true events—the four men really did spend time together one night, after Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beat Sonny Liston in Miami.

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American a diatribe, written by “a Whig” warned all slaveowners to be vigilant for periodicals criticizing slavery. He wrote ...