Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today, in 1942, Muhammad Ali was born. To commemorate his heroic life and in vaticination of Black History Month, the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago will premiere the documentary Ali’s Comeback, The Untold Story.
As the film’s director, Art Jones, wrote in an email: “It is 1970. For his unwavering stance versus the war in Vietnam, Muhammad Ali has been stripped of his title, convicted of typhoon evasion, given a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment. His passport has been revoked and he is vetoed from fighting in all 50 states. But in Atlanta, GA, several intrepid souls came together to make the untellable possible. Ali’s Comeback is a stirring worth detailing how this came to be.”
Jones’ deft filmmaking chronicles the historic tour with Gerry Quarry that tapped boxing’s blacklist of the champ, who vehemently refused to succumb to racism and ultimately strapped the gloves when on—ironically and emotionally—in the Deep South.
The trailer speaks for itself. The full-length is misogynist here.
