oh my goodness okay
what cash what
why am i so pretty
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today's episode is all about one night
in miami regina king's feature
directorial debut
adapted from the screenplay by writer
kent powers it takes us behind the hotel
curtain on a captivating night with four
monumental figures
malcolm x sam cook jim brown and cassius
clay
who would later change his name to
muhammad ali that doesn't count as a
spoiler does it
even though this movie seems like the
answer to one of those if you could hang
out with anyone in history hypotheticals
but that's exactly what i mean
a movie like this is bound to get fact
checked so we decided to save you a
little time
you ready let's go
the hampton house is real
it's a damn dumb
the hampton house was known by
influential black entertainers as the
time as a temporary haven from
segregation
after clay's win that night he wasn't
permitted to stay on the miami strip due
to jim crow laws
the hampton house was a place of social
and cultural refuge and is now fully
restored thanks to a 2015 renovation
you can even visit malcolm x's former
suite plus
the cool sexiest decor in this movie
puts a real flare on racial tension and
social responsibility
cash's plays management team did their
best to hide his association with
malcolm x
but the investors only know what they
see on tv and that ain't good they pay
for my training they don't get to choose
my friends for me well training's what
they want their money going towards not
some
white man hating demagogues airfare what
did the investors say when they gave me
my money
that it was yours to do to do with as i
please angie
clay's manager did attempt to keep his
alliance with malcolm x and other black
muslims quiet
because he feared it would put clay's
chance at the heavyweight title in
jeopardy
and rightfully so as demonstrated in the
newscast betty shabazz watches on
television the nation of islam was often
depicted
as an aggressive attack against white
americans
jim brown was a commentator for the
championship fight that night
so i'm really happy with that yeah i
think we got a really good show
all right that's what i'm talking about
right there
now see the thing about him man he stays
on his toes nobody moves like him just
dancing floats all right come on come on
guys
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broadcasted live with les keter and
howard cossell jim brown was one of the
commentators on the radio broadcast for
clay's fight that night people all over
the country
paid to watch it telecast in theaters
but a clause in the contract that
demanded seating for the telecast not be
racially segregated
caused some theaters in the south to
refuse showing the event
another fun fact and bad idea jim brown
actually wanted to
fight clay for some reason he even tried
to coax him into a fight years after the
heavyweight bout
i won't get into how this playful
one-sided challenge ended here
but let's just say jim quickly learned
he was out of his league
cassius clay met the beatles for a photo
op
cassia's claim at the beatles for a
photo op in miami a week before his
championship fight on february 18 1964.
it was a total publicity stunt but the
pictures and the stories of that day
would last for decades with multiple
members of the beatles going on to make
multiple dad jokes about how they showed
cassius a thing or two in the ring that
day
muhammad ali and malcolm x got in a
fight over his changing views of the
nation of islam
have you been using me no no brother i'm
trying to save you
but you're the only one that needs
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while this didn't happen exactly as it's
depicted in the film
there is a fair amount of truth to it
malcolm will be criticized for speaking
out against the honorable elijah
muhammad causing a rift between the two
but not until years later malcolm left
the nation shortly before he was
murdered
while ali remained a loyal follower of
elijah muhammad for years after
ali is said to have regretted never
patching things up with malcolm before
his death regina king's decision to bend
the truth of the actual timeline and
include this in the film
acts as a final moment of conflict and a
telling knot of the discord to come
after the fight cash's clay changed his
name and declared a support for the
nation of islam and from this day
forward i no longer want to be called by
the name
cassius clay that is a slave name what
are we supposed to call you that
you will refer to me as cassius x
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this is another almost true fact while
casual clay didn't change his name that
night
he did change his name to cassius x in a
press conference the morning after his
victory he defended his decision by
declaring
i don't have to be what you want me to
be i'm free to be who i want
he embraced the name muhammad ali after
converting to islam and marching the
same year
okay one more
muhammad ali said there is no way i'm
supposed to be this great
yes he really said that well basically
after winning the fight ali is quoted as
saying i don't have a mark on my face
and i beat sunny liston and i'm just 22
years old
i must be the greatest so not word for
word but
i can totally see him saying it in the
mirror i am 210 and a half pounds of
trouble boys
and what they didn't know was when they
weighed me in a half pound of it wasn't
even me
what was it cash it was a half pound a
divine skill but stole them from me
from god up on so now you
can enjoy one night in miami without
saying to yourself did that really
happen
because it did for the most part so
those are the facts
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one night in miami streaming now on
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