January 12, 2012
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 1997 file photo, former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali kisses a Liberian orphan while residents cheer Ali's arrival at an orphanage for Liberian refugees in San Pedro, Ivory Coast. Ali and his entourage came on a goodwill visit to donate food, wheelchairs, and medicine after receiving a letter asking for help from the mission's organizer Sister M. Sponsa Beltran. Ali turns 70 on Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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Greatest's latest fight: Ali center part of legacy to nearly 70-year-old heavyweight's social activism
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Muhammad Ali's fists made him famous, but his plight as a social activist was perhaps his biggest fight.. At the Muhammad Ali Center, visitors see the three-time world heavyweight champion railing against war, segregation and poverty. They also see the softer side of a man embracing
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