This column originally appeared in the June 9, 1980 edition of The Boston Globe. Ali had a cold. It had kept him up most of the night and now, just past 7 on Saturday morning, he was sitting in the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the nondescript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad ...

Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, entered the combative ring of politics and culture by refusing to serve in the United States military at the height of the Vietnam War on ...

On June 20th, 1967, Muhammad Ali was sentenced to five years in a federal prison. He didn’t blink. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

When she fences, no one can tell that Ibtihaj Muhammad is wearing a headscarf. That was the whole point. Growing up in New Jersey, Muhammad’s after-school schedule was a round robin of youth sports: ...

This story originally appeared on TIME.com. Were you hoping Donald Trump was watching? “Who?” Ibtihaj Muhammad, the American fencer who had just lost to Cecilia Berder, of France, in the round of 16 ...

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Friday last week marked the death of arguably the greatest and most beloved Black athlete in history: Muhammad Ali. No sport has exploited athletes, particularly Black athletes, quite like boxing. The ...

Ibtihaj Muhammad (United States) waits to compete against Olena Kravatska (Ukraine) in the women's sabre individual fencing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 8, 2016. Ibtihaj ...