e-commentary

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“Muhammad Ali:  Never the White Man’s Negro”  Joyce Carol Oates

“Muhammad Ali:  The Champion Who Never Sold Out”  William C. Rhoden

“What Happened To The Muhammad Ali I Idolized, Blackistone Asks”  Kevin Blackistone

“Muhammad Ali:  Worshiped.  Misunderstood.  Exploited.”  Ishmael Reed

“In the Ring He Was Ali, but in the Newspapers He Was Still Clay”  Victor Mather

“Muhammad Ali Was Her First, and Greatest, Love”  Karen Crouse

“Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet”  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

“Obama Remembers Ali as a ‘Personal Hero’”

“President Obama’s Statement on Muhammad Ali”

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[See the e-commentary on “Ali (June 6, 2016)” and “The Big Decision (December 13, 2010)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

He would have had fun with gedenkschrift/festschrift. 

He would have played with the more familiar “roast and toast.” 

Was he an activist or a pacifist?

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