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Leslie Odom Jr., Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Aldis Hodge star in One Night in Miami. Amazon Studios
The new Amazon movie âOne Night in Miamiâ centers on a meeting among four famous friends in that Florida city in February 1964. It takes place just after Cassius Clay, soon to become Muhammad Ali, has beaten Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight championship.
The friends are Clay; Cleveland Browns star running back Jim Brown, soon to give up football for Hollywood; Malcolm X, soon to break with the Nation of Islam; and singer Sam Cooke, who had just composed and recorded his most indelible song, âA Change Is Gonna Come.â The movie has the song coming out later, but close enough.
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Nobody gave Cassius Clay a hope in hell, but Malcolm X had faith. Why wouldn t he? Not only had the young upstart been training harder than his rival, World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, but he also had Allah in his corner. “This fight is the truth,” Malcolm told his protégé in the days before the 1964 title bout. “It’s the Cross and the Crescent fighting in the prize ring for the first time. It’s a modern Crusades – a Christian and a Muslim facing each other with television to beam it off Telstar for the whole world to see what happens!”
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A good way to hear what we’ve missed this year is to listen to Sam Cooke’s landmark live album, “Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963.” On a warm January night in downtown Miami, Cooke was well into his torrid set when, in the middle of “Bring it on Home to Me,” he asks the audience to join in.
“Let me hear you say yeah,” coos Cooke.
The “Yeah!” that follows instant, exuberant, loud is one of the great call-and-responses in music, a euphoria of performer and audience as one.