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 ...

Photo Len Trievnor / Getty Images The boy born Cassius Clay (not to be confused with Cassius Marcellus Clay, an American abolitionist) grew up in a segregated city, the child of a sign painter and ...

Instead, 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 ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 25, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Seven Continents restaurant ...

But the Clays have been there for six generations—ever since their ancestors worked as slaves on the plantation of Cassius Marcellus Clay, who was Lincoln’s Minister to Russia. They like the ...

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.

To prepare the young actors for a show that takes place decades before they were born, “we had a conversation about what it was like to live in the 1950s as a person of color, e ...

On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida. On the day of the ...

“And in this Corner: Cassius Clay” runs Feb. 21 through March 2 at the Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave. This play tells the story of Cassius Clay Jr., starting long before the world knew ...

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 ...

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 ...