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Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine.

Whether he was the first or the most successful to do so, one-time world light heavyweight boxing champion Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom forged quite a second career for himself in several media, including no few old-time radio appearances.

You might not be able to swing like Muhammad Ali , but that doesn't mean you can't buy some of his swagger.

In this Oct. 30, 1974, file photo, perspiration flies from the head of defending champion George Foreman as he takes a right from challenger Muhammad Ali in the seventh round in their world heavyweight championship bout dubbed "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire.

Boxing movies are like movies in general: Some are very, very good -- Raging Bull, Rocky, The Set-Up , the original Body and Soul and some are very, very bad Honeyboy, Goldie and the Boxer and the no-semblance-to-the-1947-classic remake of Body and Soul, starring the clueless Leon Isaac Kennedy in place of the great John Garfield.

Muhammad Ali reacts after being struck by Larry Holmes during their 1980 title fight.

Today is already filled with scads of serious headlines -- a Nobel Peace Prize for Obama, a successful effort to blast the moon to find water, a deadly car bombing in Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali and wife Lonnie at the District 319 movie theatre in Vancouver for a screening of Facing Ali.

We've all heard Whitney Houston singing "The Greatest Love of All," written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed, in which she reminds us that the "children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way." The song is a powerful one and was first sung by George Benson for the soundtrack for Muhammad Ali's movie "The Greatest," later made ...

Some are following their heroes, others looking for meaning in their lives. One thing's for sure a ' the numbers are growing Black conversion or "reversion" to Islam is not new; it has been taking place in the African diaspora since time immemorial.

The film Facing Ali, which screens at the Vancouver International Film Festival, tells the story of Muhammad Ali through 10 warriors who met him in the ring.

"Where Intellectual Honesty Has Trumped Partisanship -- Albeit in a Kind of Boring Way Until Recently -- Since 2005" Thursday, October 01, 2009 A Real Thrilla I am delighted to return to PrawfsBlawg as a guest this month, and I thought I would start off with bang, of sorts.

Hundreds crowded Penn Square that October day in 1979 for a glimpse of Muhammad Ali, and no one was more excited than 18-year-old Sidney Gantz, wearing a suit for the occasion.

I am not a huge basketball fan, in fact I'm a casual one at best. But there was a time when I was an avid watcher of the game.

A TIVERTON boxing fan got to meet his hero - the man known simply as 'The Greatest' - at a sporting dinner in honour of Muhammad Ali.

Muhammad Ali was greeted with a roar to rival even the Rumble in the Jungle when he took a few frail steps on the Turnpike Road today, from where his great grandfather Abe Grady set out for the New World almost 150 years ago.

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD met boxing legend Muhammad Ali this week at the Old Berkeley Court Hotel in Dublin.

It was a concert born of big ideas and easy opportunism. With African Americans embracing their roots in the mother country -- and newly liberated African nations on the rise -- why not stage a concert celebrating traditional and contemporary African music, and such far-flung offshoots as R&B, jazz and salsa? It would be a global musical ...

Muhammad Ali has become the latest high-profile African-American to be feted in Ireland for his Irish roots.

James Brown in the movie "Soul Power." Gather some of the greatest blues and soul artists of all time -- including James Brown and B.B. King -- and they are still no match for "The Greatest." Muhammad Ali stings like a bee and steals the show in "Soul Power ," a documentary about the music festival known as Zaire '74 that accompanied his famed ...