Muhammad Ali gave black America a voice in a white world

Eulogised on his death as a hero, it is easy to forget how reviled Ali once was in his homeland Neal Gabler

THERE are many reasons to mourn Muhammad Ali and many accomplishments of his to eulogise.

But the single largest of these may be how, through his one-man civil rights movement, he transformed the way some of us live. What Martin Luther King Jr. was to politics, Ali was to popular culture.