A records search by USA TODAY Sports indicates Muhammad Ali never legally changed his name from Cassius Clay — and lived in an era when he didn’t have to. Officials in Kentucky, where Ali was ...

In April 2024, a claim was shared on Reddit that Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located on a wall to prevent people from stepping on his name. The post, which received 33,000 ...

“This Clay name has no meaning,” he said in a radio address. “Muhammad Ali is what I will give him as long as he believes in Allah and follows me.” On March 24, the New York Times ...

‘May I call myself Muhammad Ali, boss?’ On screen Lipsyte: He’s very sensitive about my rightful name. And in several very cruel fights, one with Floyd Patterson, one with Ernie ...

Antoine Fuqua's archival film 'What's My Name| Muhammad Ali' documents Ali’s public life as boxing champ and cultural hero. By Caryn James Watching Antoine Fuqua’s archival documentary about ...

Elijah Muhammad offers him a new name to secure his allegiance: Muhammad Ali. After the heavyweight champion grows close with Malcolm X, he announces to reporters that he's renounced the name Clay ...

On March 6 he announces that Elijah has bestowed him the name Muhammad Ali. The name means "Praiseworthy One." In July, Ali has his first date with Sonji Roy, a fund-raiser for the Nation of Islam.

“And I’ve just recently started to embrace the name because I’ve been hiding from ... Everlast shorts which had previously belonged to Ali and were passed down after he died in 2016.

Muhammad Ali is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers to have ever lived. However, this wasn't the name he was born with. Ali's birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., but he changed ...

In "Muhammad Ali: Athlete of the Century," a collection of Associated Press stories and visuals, AP reporters and photographers captured the life of the boxing champion as he made news in the ...

Later, Ali announced: “Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when ...

His early embrace of the Nation of Islam and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his "slave name," Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. His refusal to be inducted into ...