Code Switch Extra: Re-Remembering Muhammad Ali

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Sure, Ali was the greatest, a humanitarian, an inspiration. He was also a complicated, messy figure. Gene and the team dig in, and wonder what people mean when they say Ali "transcended race."

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Co2Witch from NPR, Race and Identity Remixed, I'm Jane Demby.
0:14.9	Normally our episodes come out on Wednesdays as you know, but there's something the team
0:17.9	has been chewing on for the last few days that we felt like we really needed a hash
0:20.8	out a little bit, and it's about Muhammad Ali.
0:23.5	The Heavyweight boxing champion and cultural icon died last week, and there was a wave of
0:27.1	really moving heartfelt tributes to him.
0:29.1	Like a lot of you, we inhaled many of those tributes and remembers is, but some of us really
0:33.1	felt like something was missing from a lot of what we were hearing and reading.
0:36.6	The Ali we remember was getting lost, so we wanted to jump in to studio and talk about
0:39.9	that.
0:40.9	With me here, I've got some folks from the Co2Witch team, correspondent Karen Griggsby
0:44.1	Bates, was good KGB.
0:45.8	Hey Jane.
0:46.8	Our producer Walter Ray Watson.
0:48.6	Hello.
0:49.6	And our editor, Alicia Montgomery.
0:51.6	Hi there.
0:52.6	So KGB, you did a radio story about this.
0:54.3	I did.
0:55.3	I'm missing for you in the coverage of Ali's death.
0:59.1	Ali's ferocity.
1:00.9	Anybody who grew up seeing him on television speaking, even in newsreels now, you can pull
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