Recently the Courier-Journal, a news publication in Muhammad Ali’s hometown of Louisville issued a public apology to the departed boxing legend just a few days after his passing. In 1964 Ali, then named Cassius Clay, converted to Islam faith and in accordance with his new religion, legally assumed the new name Muhammad Ali.
Over the years though, this paper consistently refused to acknowledge his new name, for 50 solid years! Now he died, and suddenly they decide they will stop calling him by what he termed his ‘slave name’.