Young Clay

Before he was a firebrand for civil rights, before he galvanized debate about segregation, Islam and the Vietnam War, before he was known as Muhammad Ali, a young boxer named Cassius Clay astounded even casual observers of boxing with his athletic …

From there, we cut back and forth between past and near-present: One moment, Clay's a young boxing star, coolly but steadily pounding away at a bag; the next, he's a small boy, walking toward the ?coloreds only? section of a bus, where he sees a photo…

Clay Mills Road Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Fugate claims ignorance was the reason that his assistant dressed up in blackface to participate in a boxing match as part of a skit for the National Young Fundamentalist Conference in Lexington, Ky., reports…

The head of a Kentucky church is pleading 'ignorance' over a 'blackface boxing match' skit held during a religious conference this week. Pastor Jeff Fugate, 49, of Lexington, oversaw the National Young Fundamentalists Conference at his Clay Mills Road …