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  • Khalilah Ali is an American actor who is best known as one of the former wives of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Born and raised in an ardent religious Islamic.
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  • Khalilah Camacho Ali (born Belinda Boyd; March 17, 1950) is an American actress, also known for being the former wife of boxer Muhammad Ali.

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    The Greatest Wife: Exclusive Interview with Khalilah Ali
    By: Ron Scarfone

    There are only two people still alive who know Muhammad Ali best and were a significant part of his life when he was in his prime. One of the two people is Dr. Ferdie Pacheco. The other person is Khalilah Ali. Khalilah was married to Muhammad Ali for ten years from 1967-1977. Dr. Ferdie Pacheco was known as “The Fight Doctor” and served as Muhammad Ali’s doctor and cornerman for about 15 years. Muhammad Ali was not allowed to box professionally for more than three years after refusing to be inducted into the United States Army in 1967. Muhammad Ali objected to the Vietnam War and the killing that was done in the name of war, but he was still convicted of draft evasion. Muhammad Ali was 25 years old at the time. He would not fight again until 1970.

    He did get back into shape, but he was never the same boxer in spite of the success he had after he obtained a license to box again. His prime years were taken

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    Biography on Muhammad Ali offers provokativ view into life of 'The Greatest'

    The first and last image Jonathan Eig says he saw each day in his boyhood bedroom was a poster of Muhammad Ali on the ceiling. In Eig's view then, Ali was a "superhero."

    The 53-year-old reporter told an audience on Sunday at Chicago's Emanuel Congregation that he was dumbfounded a few years ago over a realization about Ali.

    "There have been a hundred books written about him. There have been terrific books written about him," Eig said. "But nobody had written the full-blown biography."

    So the author of four books -- on Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Al Capone and the scientific team that invented the birth control pill -- embarked in 2013 on writing a fifth: "Ali: A Life."

    Eig says he interviewed more than 200 people, collaborated with Arizona State University scientists to analyze Ali's speech patterns and their neurological implications, commissioned a CompuBox study of every slag landed by and agai

  • khalilah belinda ali biography books

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    Khalilah Ali

    Former wife of boxer Muhammad Ali

    Khalilah Camacho Ali

    Born

    Belinda Boyd


    (1950-03-17) March 17, 1950 (age 74)
    Occupation(s)Humanitarian, author, actor
    Spouses

    Muhammad Ali

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    (m. 1967; div. 1976)​

    Rene Gonzalez Camacho

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    (m. 1989; died 1993)​
    Children4

    Khalilah Camacho Ali (born Belinda Boyd; March 17, 1950) is an American actress, also known for being the former wife of boxer Muhammad Ali.[1]

    Personal life

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    Early life and background

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    Belinda Boyd was born on March 17, 1950, and raised in Chicago within the Nation of Islam (NOI) community. Her father, Brother Raymond, served as a prominent lieutenant under Elijah Muhammad, and her mother, Sister Inez (Aminah), worked within the temple as a security officer and companion to Sister Clara Muhammad, the NOI First Lady. Due to her parents' role