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"The Greatest Love of All" is a song written by #MichaelMasser, who composed the music, and #LindaCreed, who wrote the lyrics. It was originally recorded in 1977 by #GeorgeBenson, who made the song a substantial hit, peaking at number two on the US #HotSoulSingles chart that year, the first #RAndBChart top-ten hit for #AristaRecords. The song was written and recorded to be the main theme of the 1977 film #TheGreatest, a biopic of the boxer #MuhammadAli.
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iamBullivant

On 20 June 1967 Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the Vietnam Draft. The judge handed down the maximum sentence to Cassius Clay (as they insisted upon calling him in court): five-years in a federal penitentiary and a $10,000 fine. The Supreme Court overturned Ali’s conviction in 1971 after the consensus on the war had changed profoundly.

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in labor history April 28, 1967: Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. Consequently, he was stripped of his boxing title and threatened with jail. The judge sentenced him, in part, for statements such as this one: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”

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#workingclass#LaborHistory#boxing
Brother Soul

Just like #muhammadali shook up the world, I just shook up the @labr #labr #loveabrotherradio #replay list.

Turn off your head for a few. Push play on one of these joints.

And here's a little task for you. If any of these shows make you feel a little bit better than what you're feeling now? Share that feeling with us. Right here, in this post.

Big up's who take part in advance. We appreciate ya'll. Fa Real.

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Trevor Burrows

I just saw a commercial for #Lucid motors that uses video of both #NinaSimone and #MuhammadAli and that thing boiled my blood on like 5 levels.

Especially using Simone that way felt nearly sacrilegious? Go listen to Four Women and then tell me she belongs in your shitty car commercial.

They justify it here, linking Simone and Ali into their tagline "compromise nothing" and that might make it worse, not better:

lucidmotors.com/stories/compro

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@PhoenixSerenity
This is something that impresses me greatly about #MuhammadAli, that he was drafted, and, even though he could have used his celebrity status to stay safe, he used it to become a major face in the opposition of the #Vietnam war. The world got to see hearings with old white men calling a successful young black man "boy" repeatedly, chastising him as some sort of criminal for this simple act of not wanting to kill people for a country that didn't respect his rights.

It also affects the #transgender movement to this day that, despite him repeatedly asserting that his name was now Muhammad Ali, they kept referring to him by his #DeadName. Backlash to this set the tone for later rights of other people to go by different names.

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 2, 1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in one basketball game, setting an NBA record. The closest anyone has come to this record was Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006. Chamberlain also broke the record for most free throws scored during a game. That season, he averaged over 50 points per game, scoring over 60 points in 12 games. No one has come close to this. Wilt also had a 78-point game in 1961, two 73-point games in 1962, a 72-point game in 1962 and a 70-point game in 1963. Chamberlain has 5 the 8 single highest single game point totals in NBA history. I was lucky enough to see him play once, as a kid, toward the end of his career, when he was playing for the now defunct San Diego Conquistadores.

Chamberlain holds 72 NBA records, including records in scoring and rebounding. He once made 55 rebounds in a single game. He is not only the only NBA player to average over 30 points and 20 rebounds per game over the course of a season, he did this seven times in his career. He left college early to play professionally, at first with the Harlem Globetrotters because, in those days, the NBA refused to accept players until their graduating year of college had ended. One of the Globetrotters’ skits involved team captain, Meadowlark Lemon, feigning injury and falling to the floor. Instead of helping him up, Chamberlain lifted the 210-pound Lemon and threw him several feet into the air, and then caught him, like a ragdoll. Lemon called Chamberlain the strongest athlete who ever lived. In 1967, Chamberlain nearly got the opportunity to box against Muhammad Ali.

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