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A new documentary aims to punch up viewers’ understanding of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X’s complicated friendship. “Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali,” out Thursda… ...
Ali’s understanding of the enormity of the loss of Malcolm X is one that he doesn’t bear alone. Anasi is the author of “The Last Bohemia” and “The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle.” ...
When Blood Brothers director Marcus A. Clarke was presented with the opportunity to make a film about the relationship and subsequent fallout between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, he wasn’t aware ...
“Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, for so many of us, are (an) inspiration, they’re motivation, and really what that comes from is their ability to speak out freely against what they’re seeing ...
Ali and Malcolm X’s friendship was portrayed in the Regina King-directed film One Night in Miami last year, which was a fictionalized account of an evening they spent with Sam Cooke and Jim ...
A new book, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, explores how faith brought two African-American icons together and eventually tore their relationship apart.
Upcoming Netflix documentary Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali details the three-year-long friendship between the civil rights and Nation of Islam leader and legendary boxer.. In the ...
The two icons, once as close as brothers, were torn apart by outside forces during the Civil Rights era Malcolm X wasn't a fan of boxing until he met Muhammad Ali. But from the moment the Civil ...
As an elder (nearly 20 years Muhammad Ali’s senior), Malcolm X served as a big brother to young Cassius Clay, helping to guide his early journey to heightened racial consciousness and activism.
A documentary about the friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali is coming to Netflix this fall, with Kenya Barris attached as a producer. The film is called “Blood Brothers: Malcolm X ...
Malcolm X became a mentor to the boxer, who changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam. “Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, for so many of us, are (an) inspiration, they’re motivation, and ...
In an early clip, Ali reads a statement about Jesus and Judas that clearly references what he saw as Malcolm X’s betrayal of Elijah Muhammad. For the record, that quote came years after Malcolm ...