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50 years later, Louisville paper apologises for calling Muhammad Ali by his old name Cassius Clay
For years after boxing great Cassius Clay adopted the Muslim faith and changed his name, his hometown paper refused to call him Muhammad Ali.
Fifty years later, The Courier-Journal, Louisville's daily paper, apologised for continuing to call him Cassius Clay after he changed it in 1964. It did not consistently refer to him as Muhammad Ali until 1970.
Ali died June 3 and an estimated 100,000 people lined the streets of Louisville to say goodbye to the city's most celebrated son during his funeral last Friday.
Executive Editor Neil Budde wrote Monday's editorial that chronicled how the paper for years either ignored Ali's preferred name or outright mocked it.
