Dagestani training camps are no joke. And among the countless UFC monsters who have trained under Khabib Nurmagomedov, Belal ...

If someone has not released a recording in twenty five years, it must be a special occasion. Lonnie Liston Smith went out west, met a Fender Rhodes piano and, voila, conjured up the '70s again. So, ...

Dawan Muhammad qualifies as a unique kind of renaissance man. For Hereafter he plays woodwinds and flutes, is composer, arranger, conceptualizer, and label manager. But the reality is so much broader ...

We usually talk about books “hitting” shelves, but in this case, it’s probably more of a punch: Jonathan Eig’s highly anticipated Muhammad Ali biography, Ali: A Life, will be published on Oct. 3. Eig ...

Cassius Clay exploded onto the scene in 1960 as the audacious boxer known as "The Louisville Lip." Clay would go on to change his name and the course of American history -- first as an Olympic and ...

(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.