Steadman isn’t sure how the illustration disappeared—“I have a lot of drawings which I’ve forgotten all about. I now think of myself as a pictorial polluter”—but it turned up recently in the private ...

Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...

Visit of Muhammad Ali to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, March 17, 1976. During his visit he donated a pair of gloves and a ...

The Trials of Muhammad Ali explores the extraordinary and complex life of the legendary athlete outside the boxing ring. From joining the controversial Nation of Islam and changing his name from ...

The driven, charismatic young athlete lived up to his claim to be "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali's story took on moral complexity three years into his reign as champion. Norman Mailer wrote in 1975 that, ...

It was a fitting end to this country’s most famous Muslim life: Family and friends gathered around the bed of Muhammad Ali, the boxer whose conversion to Islam decades ago sent countless seekers and ...

Compassion for one another - and the ability to see someone is valuable no matter who they are - is one of the rarest gifts a person can have. When that person is also one of the most famous people in ...

He's still the most recognizable man on earth. And over forty years after he burst upon the scene as a gold medal winner at the 1960 Olympics, in Rome, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and ...