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Picture this: it s February 25, 1964 and young boxer Cassius Clay has just defeated Sonny Liston at the Convention Hall in Miami to become the World Heavyweight Champion. That s cause for celebration, right?
Instead, the boxer would retreat to the Hampton House hotel in a Black neighbourhood in town with his famous friends, activist Malcolm X, musician Sam Cooke, and NFL superstar Jim Brown. Truly life-changing was the encounter that the very next day Clay announced he was converting to Islam and from then on would be known as Muhammad Ali. Four Black icons in one hotel room? Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of that historic gathering.
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