KCET, the PBS station serving Southern and Central California, begins celebrating Black History Month tonight and all through February by airing, Trials of Muhammad Ali, a documentary on Ali’s life. From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, from the Olympics to boxing’s world champion, Ali’s life of belief and conscience, fame and fortune, faith and identity […]
KCET, the PBS station serving Southern and Central California, begins celebrating Black History Month tonight and all through February by airing, Trials of Muhammad Ali, a documentary on Ali’s life.
From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali, from the Olympics to boxing’s world champion, Ali’s life of belief and conscience, fame and fortune, faith and identity made him one the most recognized person on the planet.
KCET merged with Link to form KCETLink, a national independent broadcast and digital network.
Trials of Muhammad Ali can be seen tonight at 9 ET on Link TV (Dish Network ch. 9410 and DirecTV ch. 375) and on KCET in Southern California.
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On a personal note, as a young man with a pugnacious attitude growing up in a blue-collar area, I learned how to box at a young age, so if bullied, I could at least defend myself. And it came in handy more than a few times.
So I idolized Muhammad Ali, but not just for his extraordinary prowess as a boxer, but for his larger than life personality, his strength of character, his unwavering stance to be his own man.
In the 1970s, Mohammed Ali used a training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., just north of Reading. In those days, I was a student in college in West Chester, 40 miles south of Reading.
There were a lot of students who hitchhiked home to Reading on the weekends from West Chester and one of them was out there thumbing it one Friday afternoon.
A car stopped and the door opened and a familiar voice invited the student in.
It was Mohammed Ali, being driven to his training camp in Deer Lake.
The friend told me that after kidding around with him for a few minutes, all Ali wanted to talk about was the importance of getting an education.
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