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To Beach that is Ali’s lasting legacy to all the other African-American athletes who have followed him.

Ali will be honored at a star-studded gala and fund-raiser for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and the Muhammad Ali Center at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday.

The 70-year-old former heavyweight champion once glided around the ring with the fluidity and grace of a ballet dancer. He no longer floats like a butterfly. His gait is a slow shuffle. Once a loquacious raconteur, Ali is trapped in a cocoon of silence. The ravages of Parkinson’s Syndrome have taken a devastating toll.

Whatever his physical form, Ali remains an enduring symbol of courage, honor and integrity for millions around the world. But for African-American athletes he has special meaning. He was the first black athlete since Jack Johnson at the turn of the 20th Century to upset the status quo. Like Johnson, Ali challenged political, social and cultural boundaries at great personal cost. But because Ali did it during a politically and socially convulsive period in American history, his sacrifices have greater resonance.

- Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar say Muhammad Ali's social consciousness is lost on today's athletes, NYDailyNews.com, February 11, 2017.

3. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, saw what the country saw when it was official that Barack Obama had been elected President, saw the remarkable joyful pictures from Chicago.