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‘The Greatest’: Remembering Muhammad Ali

Ali is remembered not just for his sporting feats, but also for his unwavering character, moral values, and the challenges he surmounted as a Black man during a time rife with racial tensions in an overwhelmingly white and Christian country.

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Four years later, he dethroned Sonny Liston in Miami to win his first world heavyweight boxing title, marking his arrival on the world stage. In the same year, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali, asserting that his previous name was a "white man's name, a slave name."