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Peering Through the Hazy Past: Floyd Patterson and Fats Domino

Peering Through the Hazy Past: Floyd Patterson and Fats Domino

Even as Black America continues to battle crime, violence, death, and a hostile political and economic policy, it can be soothing to peer through the haze and marvel at the richness of Black American stories. Two such stories: Floyd Patterson and Fats Domino.

‘Ali: A Life’ Chronicles a Rhyming, Jabbing, Heroic Contradiction

‘Ali: A Life’ Chronicles a Rhyming, Jabbing, Heroic Contradiction

In the first-ever unauthorized biography of Muhammad Ali, Jonathan Eig captures the icon's triumphant, tragic, and quintessentially American arc with exquisite detail and original analysis.

‘Jawbone’ Challenges its Viewers: Should a Film Be Judged By Our Gut or Mind?

‘Jawbone’ Challenges its Viewers: Should a Film Be Judged By Our Gut or Mind?

Thomas Napper’s Jawbone is to be felt, lived, and it remembered and written about as a film pulled up from the guts of its storytellers.

Muhammad Ali and the Day Fans Pelted the Ring With Trash

Muhammad Ali and the Day Fans Pelted the Ring With Trash

In his new book, Ali vs. Inoki, Josh Gross untangles the complicated history of the 1976 meeting of two legends -- and a failed experiment.
“Southpaw’s” Punches Are Too Predictable

“Southpaw’s” Punches Are Too Predictable

Jake Gyllenhaal's performance is the only shining light in a film that relies too heavily on clichés.

‘Sucker Punch’: Fights, Fights, Arguments, Fights

Of Writing Men: David Remnick’s ‘King of the World’

The Animal Inside: ‘Raging Bull’

Champions Forever: Ali — The Lost Interviews

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