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Boxing great and Civil Rights activist Muhammad Ali dead at 74, a two-part series on Ali, Part 1 with comments from boxing promoter Don King, and Part 2 addressed from the standpoint of greater Cleveland community activist and reporter Kathy Wray Coleman, a native of Louisville who knew Ali and his wife Lonnie and her family and grew-up with Lonnie's younger siblings and played cards at the home of Lonnie's parents...By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Boxing great and Civil Rights activist Muhammad Ali and his wile Yolanda "Lonnie" Ali International  boxing promoter Don King (third from left)  with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson ( fifth from left) and boxers  Angelo Santana (fourth from left) and Hank Lundy (second from left), who squared off for a boxing match in Cleveland, Ohio via a nationally  televised fight promoted by King from Cleveland, Ohio on Feb. 21, 2014. King also promoted Ali in legendary fights between boxing greats George Foreman and Joe Frazier .                                                             Ali (left) and Don King  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he