>> before mohammed ali, athletes -- we had to stereotype athletes. e minke mental type of athlete. very few words, non controversial. you do not deal with politics. you stay away with everything controversial. muhammad ali was controversial. he wins the title. the day after he wins the title in this press conference, he says he announces his name is no longer mohammed ali, he will go by -- his name is no longer cassius clay but cassius acts. he is a member of the nation of is lynn, hence the mid member of islam, so he is political. suddenly, he was just a little bit ahead of his generation. he comes out against vietnam before it is the popular stance to take. he just completely changes the landscape for an athlete. he creates the landscape for the athletes today where they can take political positions. most of them don't but they certainly can. and some do. >> i think that is an interesting kind of end diagram, because what we are talking about -- i will injudiciously bring tammy faye into in the entertainment category, but typically these are roads t

would give a speech and he would use a metaphor and then some shortly afterwards you would see mohammed aliuse the same story the same metaphor the same example. the great thing about muhammad ali, he was a wonderful person. if you told him something, a story, the next day he would tell the story and the next day he would tell it again, and pretty soon you would think he was the origin of the story. he would tell it better than anybody else would tell. he was great at telling stories. using that media was good. with the john wayne of course, there were interviews, there were 200 films roughly that he made. you could see him progress. his art progressed, his character progressed. that iconic individual, how it evolved over time. i have one more story in and it is an interview story on the john wayne book. it is serendipitous and moments. i try to get an interview with a woman by the name of mary saint-jean who was john wayne's personal secretary throughout his entire career. she had never been interviewed before. she was living in kansas city at that time. she said i don't know, i don't know

and we tell the story of gaseous clay and how she became mohamed ali. so it's a lot of stuff and it's fun and exciting. >> host: is that one of the -- >> guest: it keeps me going during business you >> guest: >> host: is that one of the goals of your site? >> guest: absolutely. it's to make it easier for parents and teachers to find books that will turn their kids on which is important. a lot of times, when i got into the hardware store i don't want to look like a fool. i need males but i don't know what kind of nails and i don't want to be made fun of by the person at the counter. a lot of people feel that way about bookstores. they don't know what kids books to get into they don't want to look stupid so they don't go and they don't ask and that's terrible. it's not their fault. although parents and grandparents need to understand it is your responsibility to give your kids reading. it's your responsibility. if you don'you don't let them tl over the floor, you make them sit at the table from you and you need to get them reading so if they are not readi

and he goes oh it won't in that regard right now sensitive to see other at the he goes oh it's mohammed ali and like this is december of $79.00 s. when i walk in the room and i couldn't breathe em out of the butter goes up to ali and puts her arm around his neck and ghost is the mom is how i am we need men. and my work is not the fault of the. lady there's only one great is it's me and 7 is the market i know you're good but my drive is bigger so he had a assures you know. and i look at here and i'm like wedding and my heart is pounding and he goes mom says you're good no mr mommy you know i'm the greatest the bar tab. on how he goes there is true cause i go yeah and i get people to all the time i want to ask is that getting as a but they annoyed me i think because he can't. see you do what he does i get paid. so he knew that out this fall crap in yuan's fragile had broke and saw something and he goes don't ever be a day that i'm not in your lives and asked me your mama dolly she does that he looks at me tennis and he goes got me too special and i go you know got to know that some nice. sorr

bursting with nonstop activity continuously since 1966 it was here that larry holmes famously battled mohammed aliire lit up the stage for sold out crowds now only a drawn curtain graces the coliseum stage as the coronavirus pandemic darkened the world, even the vegas strip went dim the streets, silent. caesarser entertainment ceo gave the order none before had ever dream ed close the doors, turn off the lights, the party's over >> it's very eerie and sad to think that it had operated nonstop for 54 years and then just comes to a screeching halt. >> reporter: inside what was once an echo chamber of success, today you can hear a chip drop and the rows of blaring machines and blackjack tables, now vast, empty rooms representing an economic disaster. nevada is losing an estimated $2 million in gaming tax revenue every day. >> there's no policebook to this we don't have that it's something this ka scasino dealing with right now and trying to figure out what to do next >> reporter: industry leaders have begun unveiling their plans for what reopening the casino would look like. including strict guidelin

but because of that mohammed ali's estate came in they said we would like you to do a book meaning when mohammed was a little kid in louisville and i went out and approached alexander who is a friend of mine and we did a book together which will come out in november about remembering or becoming muhammad ali the name of the book and it's a combination, about the pros and quantity write poetry, it's very assessable poetry, we tell the story and how he became muhammad ali. as a little kid though. it is a lot of stuff and it's cool and it's fun it's exciting. >> it keeps me going during this mess. >> was what one of the goals. >> absolutely. that is to make it easier for parents and teachers to find books that will turn their kids on. which is important. a lot of times, when i go into a hardware store, i don't know to ask for and i don't want to look like a fool, i know i need nails but i don't want to be made fun of by the person at the counter, a lot of people feel that way about bookstores, they don't know what kids books -- and they don't want to look stupid so they do not go, they do

i want using those 2 gals as friends of mine how that have to i know them and i don't want to mohammed ali. those a big bowl lives right up the road here from me we're good friends too and she adores went in for that charity of it she still goes into this day i guess they still have their charity dinner each year or something and we go every year and both came to my charity and that was in the crystal 3 years ago sharon has been incredible so here i am a girl we're all gonna and it's you know the people that you've been around your whole life but even though we come from different paths you can always tell like love and a connection and it's like you and i you know of each other good we haven't had this opportunity this is special because there's a bond there's a bond of talent and now we get to share that with other people so it's very good people and you can tell some people right away they're good people if you know and i mean it doesn't run that the people i say have to cultivate these age old relationships there's some people i could be cultivated with for the rest of my life and prob

it was on this day in 1965 that mohammed ali and sonny listen in a rematch from the one minute into the first round with a punch many never sought the fighters never came. the play resumed and it ruled that liston was down for more than 10 seconds. that's this day in sports, may 25th. aftermath today from last night's coca-cola 600 on the nasa nascar circuit. the paint lap before the start of the race. they use the cars as ballot. hamlin had to head back. didn't start until the race was a lapse old. they were dictated by the rulebook and was suspended by four races. nascar will run again wednesday night in charlotte. check out this monday evening in case you missed it. we know the musician with the soccer ball. this might allow him to be effective in other sports as well. there you have it tonight. a chance to actually talk live to bill martin which i really get a chance to do. >> joe, take us back a little bit. we've seen nascar and made-for- tv golf and that tampa bay rays practicing a little bit. this is a good first up for baseball. >> i think so and what baseball is going to do. wh

the entire civil rights organization and giving the same award for her courage as rosa parks and mohammed alion the same day. either he magically became a racist suddenly or just appointed black officer at the chief of staff and to the united states air force for the first time but everybody says he's a racist now. >> i have historically tried to avoid the term racism and racist because studies have shown so it impedes communication but i half to reverse that because they come to understand its key to what is transpiring. that shroud reality of racism that's often in newspapers of economic factors and all these things to make people more vulnerable to that toxicity. it is not true. it is race. race is a stronger risk factor that studies have shown african-americans incomes at $50000 per year are more exposed to toxins than whites who make $10000 per year. so we have to be frank and open to discussing these things otherwise that will be the shape of what we are talking about the dps from crafting solutions. >> a large part of my book was interrogating the common terms we need to describe the w

muhammad ali said we'd like to do a book about caches clay, meaning when mohammed was a little kid in louisville. i went out and approached a friend of mine and so we did a book together which will come out in november. about caches clay, remembering or becoming muhammad ali is the name of the book. -- caches clay. i write the pros and he writes poetry. it's very accessible poetry. we tell the story of how he became muhammad ali. as a little kid though. it's a lot of stuff and it's cool and fun and exciting. >> host: is that one of -- >> guest: during this mess. >> host: is that one of the goals? >> guest: absolutely. that's to make it easier for parents and teachers and whatever to find books that the kids, that will turn the kids on. on. which is important. a lot of times people -- when i go to hardware store item would ask for and it don't want to look like a fool. i know i need this but i don't know what kind and it don't want to be made fun of by the person at the counter. a lot of people feel that way but bookstores. they don't know what kids books and don't want to look stupid

failed to achieve majority among the winners is mohammed under un sanctions for his involvement in organized crime and association with armed groups but ali won as a ruling party member in another way their opposition leader say he won in the central region despite being held in captivity by armed groups who kidnapped him during his campaign while no one has claimed responsibility his family suspects militia groups close to the government for his abduction the government blames. that group and islam in the greater so called for a boycott of the vote attacking polling stations military outpost and threatening the population filmed on mobile phone an armed group using stolen military vehicles seen patrolling a village in mali central region where the mali an army is retreating. fearing attacks and the coronavirus few came out to vote with a record low turnout of 23 percent use paper vended my good deed believes that the real winners of this election are armed groups. born. here being held hostage mali is in the hands of armed groups they're surrounded us they have destroyed villages they are killing population and forcing people from their

and one year after i was born less than a year after i was born mohammed ali. and then from where i was living and then at the foot of all of that happening from one years old so to answer your question there's never been a time in my life and then to play a role. >> and then to be something more than sports. >> and to use it for something bigger than sports. >> do you see people like lebron james? >> i do they build their own thing where do you see lebron and a continuum? >> but then specifically to reach audiences and send messages that were not have worked 50 years ago because of various reasons. so i also think there is a spirit there that mohammed ali may have not existed he has very grounded in what mohammed ali stood for without saying those words he carries that with them in very smartly and not recklessly and at the same time i'm not an individual that looks at lebron james expects him to be the next mohammed ali or michael jordan or serena williams. i understand that this man is unique that we may never see him again. and we may never see it again. an