On Feb. 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali stepped into a boxing ring in the Houston Astrodome to take on then-heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. Ali was nursing a serious grudge against Terrell, who kept ...

Fighter’s Heaven in West Brunswick Township recently welcomed the author of “Ali: A Life” to tour the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Author Jonathan ...

Cassius Clay exploded onto the scene in 1960 as the audacious boxer known as "The Louisville Lip." Clay would go on to change his name and the course of American history -- first as an Olympic and ...

Decades before NFL player Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police treatment of African-Americans, boxer Muhammad Ali roiled white America with his 1967 resistance to ...

We usually talk about books “hitting” shelves, but in this case, it’s probably more of a punch: Jonathan Eig’s highly anticipated Muhammad Ali biography, Ali: A Life, will be published on Oct. 3. Eig ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Muhammad Ali was showing signs of brain damage when he was just 29, says author Jonathan Eig. While researching “Ali: A Life,” his meticulous and massive Ali bio, Eig discovered that one of the ...

The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. In Eig's view then, Ali was a "superhero." The 53-year-old journalist ...

Muhammad Ali proclaimed himself “The Greatest,” which, when it comes to his boxing, is debatable, but not when it comes to his legacy as an athlete who spoke out on social issues. Jonathan Eig’s new ...

We usually talk about books “hitting” shelves, but in this case, it’s probably more of a punch: Jonathan Eig’s highly anticipated Muhammad Ali biography, Ali: A Life, will be published on Oct. 3. Eig ...