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 ...

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 ...

For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, crippling blows he received from his opponents, says the author of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arguably no one knew Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) better than his brother, as Rahaman Ali proves in this astute account of the world boxing champion’s life. From their childhood in Jim Crow–era Louisville ...

"I don't think we do Ali any good by treating him as a saint," says biographer Jonathan Eig. "He was a human being, and he was deeply flawed, but ... he had the spirit of a rebel." Decades before NFL ...