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Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest of All Time,' Dead at 74 Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead. Ali died Friday, June 3, 2016 at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74. "After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told NBC News. Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson's, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his verbal grace and his physical dexterity. A funeral service is planned in his
hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. His daughter Rasheda said early Saturday that the legend was "no longer suffering," describing him as "daddy, my best friend and hero" as well as "the greatest man that ever lived." Even as his health declined, Ali did not shy from politics or controversy, releasing a statement in December criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. "We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda," he said. The remark bookended the life of a man who burst into the national consciousness in the early 1960s, when as a young heavyweight champion he converted to Islam and refused to serve in the Vietnam War, and became an emblem of strength, el-
oquence, conscience and courage. Ali was an anti-establishment showman who transcended borders and barriers, race and religion. His fights against other men became spectacles, but he embodied much greater battles. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on Jan. 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, to middle-class parents, Ali started boxing when he was 12, winning Golden Gloves titles before heading to the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a light heavyweight. He turned professional shortly afterward, supported at first by Louisville business owners who guaranteed him an unprecedented 50-50 split in earnings. His knack for talking up his own talents — often in verse — earned him the dismissive nickname "the Louisville Lip," but he (Continued on pg. 12) Web Photo
Army Reserve officer Pauline Redmond Coggs Foundation, Inc. Deshauna Barber crowned presents 2016 Scholarship Celebration Miss USA 2016
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The new Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber An Army Reserve officer and IT analyst from the District of Columbia has been crowned Miss USA 2016 after mounting a strong defense of women in combat roles in the military. Deshauna Barber, a 26-year-old from the nation's capital, gave the answer during the interview section of the pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 5, 2016. When asked by judge Joe www.milwaukeetimesnews.com
Zee whether the Pentagon's decision to open up all combat roles to women had "put political correctness over our military's ability to perform," 1st Lt. Barber responded: "As a woman in the United States Army, I think it was an amazing job by our government to allow women to integrate into every branch of the military." (Continued on pg 2)
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On Saturday, June 4, 2016 the Pauline Redmond Coggs Foundation, Inc. (PRC) presented their 2016 Scholarship Celebration at the Holiday Inn Riverfront Hotel, 4700 N. Port Washington Road. The foundation, which was established in 1999, this year distributed more than $40,000 in scholarships to 13 young ladies from the Milwaukee community, with an additional $5000 earmarked for distribution to those attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in the fall. Pictured at the scholarship event are (back row, from left) PRC Foundation, Inc. president Bridget Borum; Alexandria Brown, Savannah Rice; Kamryn Sprewer; Cairee Carrington; Raven Avery Moore; PRC Foundation, Inc. scholarship committee chairman Dr. Ruth Russell; (front row, seated, from left) Ayanna Ellzey; Jaylen Luter; Taylor Beamon; Velicity Strong-Howard; and Sydney Calmes. The Pauline Redmond Coggs Foundation, Inc. is part of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Epsilon Kappa Omega Chapter. An NCON Communications Publication