is the author of “Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform.” The biography, set for publication by the University of North Carolina Press in ...

(Photo by Len Trievnor/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) – Credit: Photo Len Trievnor / Getty Images The boy born Cassius Clay (not to be confused with Cassius Marcellus Clay ...

the nickname is a tribute to Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th-century politician and abolitionist. Ali’s father was also named after Marcellus Clay. “He (Marcellus Clay) got shot at a press ...

Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali held a press conference June 5 ... light heavyweight gold medal in 1960 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., went on to box professionally ...

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.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. —Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3 But there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus ... yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference.

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 ...

It finally happened. For the first time in President-elect Trump’s nine years in politics, his favorable ratings now exceed his unfavorable ratings. Consider Trump’s evolution since declaring his ...

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 ...

He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on Jan ... wrote Will Grimsley of The Associated Press. "Then it became bored and finally alarmed as Clay's wild-eyed, frenzied demonstrations took on ...