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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Another addition was made to the former heavyweight champion’s cinematic universe.
The City of Ali is a documentary focusing on Muhammad Ali’s relationship with his hometown and how the town gave him a grand send-off after his death in 2016.
What You Need To Know
Louisville’s Muhammad Ali Center hosted the world premiere of City of Ali
The public can watch the film at the Muhammad Ali Center during the 5th Annual Ali Festival that runs through the 13th
Cast, crew, and Ali’s family sat for the first screening Thursday night
Mayor Greg Fischer served as executive producer of the film
Khaliah Ali, the daughter of champion boxer Muhammad Ali, joined CNN's Pamela Brown to discuss the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She has made humanitarian visits to the country in the past and it is where her father fought in the historic "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match.
my late father and my son jacob as well. we do everything we can and certainly paying close attention to this as it is being developed. what would you like to see the international community do and expectations of the kind of damage and havoc this will reach? i want to see the issue of homelessness addressed. the ongoing of food and security ever presence and clearly not going to be made better by the circumstances. and whatever they need to repair and get backup again. all right, khaliah ali. thank you for sharing us your thoughts, thank you for coming on the show. my pleasure, you have a good evening. you, too. if you are planning to travel again, how about going into space, virgin galatica made
January 6, 2021
Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, speaks at a Fire Drill Friday protest in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Catherine Coleman Flowers.
Remember when Flint, Michigan garnered international attention because water in the city was making people sick? Well, there are communities like that around the country and the world. And while Flint gained attention because of its failing infrastructure, there are places where water and sewage infrastructure is absent. Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth, writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book Waste: One Woman s Fight Against America s Dirty Secret, published by The New Press in November. (Read an excerpt here.)