Black Entertainment : Muhammad Ali - Why is Jesus white? - Died Friday (June 04, 2016)

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Erdogan cuts short US trip, to skip Ali funeral


... The Dogan news agency quoted presidential sources as saying funeral organisers refused to allow Erdogan to lay a cloth from the Kaaba -- the cube-shaped structure at the centre of Islam's most sacred mosque -- on Ali's coffin during the ceremony.

Erdogan and the Sunni cleric who heads Turkey's religious affairs agency, Mehmet Gormez, had also wanted to give readings from the Koran but were not allowed to, it added ...



http://sports.yahoo.com/news/erdogan-cuts-short-us-trip-skip-ali-funeral-002004798--box.html


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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Meskhetian Turks -- who were expelled by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1940s -- during his visit to Louisville, Kentucky (AFP Photo/Mohamed Abdiwahab)

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Video: Muhammad Ali's funeral: The memorable moments



The funeral procession: Ali’s fans lined much of the 23-mile route from the A.D. Porter Funeral Home to Cave Hill Cemetery. They chanted his name and threw rose petals at his hearse as the 16-limousine motorcade drove through the streets of downtown Louisville. In a time when racial strife dominates the national conversation, Louisvillians both black and white stood shoulder to shoulder in the heat to honor their favorite native son ...


https://www.yahoo.com/news/muhammad-ali-s-funeral--the-memorable-moments-150159339.html


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The crowd outside Muhammad Ali's childhood home (top left, pink) #AliFuneral


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Jim Brown proposes a Modern-Day Ali Summit


... The "Ali Summit," as it was later known, was an event organized in Cleveland by recently retired NFL great Jim Brown to support Ali and his controversial decision to oppose his being drafted into the war in Vietnam. Assembling on June 4, 1967 at the offices of the Negro Industrial Economic Union were prominent African-Americans of their time, including public figures outside of sports such as Carl Stokes (the first black mayor of a major U.S. city) as well as some of the top athletes of the day, including Brown, Ali, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) ...


https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/...-help-address-violence-problem-183515782.html


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