As a part of my reflections this week amidst the protests, I decided to revisit a book I read last summer entitled “Ali: A Life.” Just stumbled upon this in the book’s epilogue and thought I’d share it. — Five months after Muhammad Ali’s death, a political activist from the 1960s sat in a coffee shop on Chicago’s South Side and told this story: In the summer of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. had come to Chicago, planning to put the city at the center of his ongoing, nonviolent revolution. He called it the Chicago Freedom Movement, and the main focus was an attack on discriminatory housing.
What Would Ali Do?
What Would Ali Do?
What Would Ali Do?
As a part of my reflections this week amidst the protests, I decided to revisit a book I read last summer entitled “Ali: A Life.” Just stumbled upon this in the book’s epilogue and thought I’d share it. — Five months after Muhammad Ali’s death, a political activist from the 1960s sat in a coffee shop on Chicago’s South Side and told this story: In the summer of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. had come to Chicago, planning to put the city at the center of his ongoing, nonviolent revolution. He called it the Chicago Freedom Movement, and the main focus was an attack on discriminatory housing.