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 Cassius Marcellus ...

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GUEST: And of course, Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay... APPRAISER: Yes. GUEST: ...was born in Louisville, Kentucky. So I do not know if maybe they were in the mosque there.

After the heavyweight champion grows close with Malcolm X, he announces to reporters that he's renounced the name Clay, citing it as a slave name, and has instead taken on the name Cassius X.

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It finally happened. For the first time in President-elect Donald Trump’s nearly nine years in politics, his favourable ratings now exceed his unfavourable ratings. Consider Trump’s evolution ...

Perhaps the only modern major public figure with a similar improbable evolution is former heavyweight champion Cassius Marcellus Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, who, like Trump, was the most ...

The Bowie knife is truly America’s knife. There are towns named after it, and it’s namesake, it’s Arkansas’ official state knife, it has appeared in iconic movies, and a variation of the classic ...

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.

Cassius Clay, “my slave name”. Named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr after his father, the sporting champion, who died on Friday aged 74, denounced his birth name upon converting to Islam and ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, emerged from humble beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky, where he began boxing at the age of 12. His journey to greatness began when he won a gold medal ...