Muhammad Ali will be laid to rest at Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery today following a processional that will take his body through the streets. The private ceremony will take place before the public funeral, scheduled for 2 p.m. at the KFC Yum Center downtown.
Here are the speakers and schedule of events for the funeral:
QURANIC RECITATION
- Hamzah Abdul Malik
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- Ayah Kutmah
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS
- Imam Zaid Shakir
SPEAKERS
- Dr. Kevin Cosby
- Senator Orrin Hatch
- Rev. Msgr. Henry Kriegel
- Dr. Timothy Gianotti
- Rabbi Michael Lerner
- Chief Sidney Hill and Chief Oren Lyons
- Rabbi Joe Rapport
- Venerable Utsumi and Sister Denise
READING
- Ambassador Shabazz
- Valerie Jarrett — statement from President Obama
EULOGISTS
- Lonnie Ali
- Maryum Ali
- Rasheda Ali-Walsh
- Alessandra “Ali” DiNicola
- Natasha Mundkur
- John Ramsey
- Billy Crystal
- Bryant Gumbel
- President William J. Clinton
ISLAMIC PRAYER, POEM & CLOSING OF SERVICE
- Imam Zaid Shakir
And here are the pallbearers for Ali’s public funeral:
- Kamawi Ali
- Ibn Ali
- Gene Dibble, Jr.
- Jerry Ellis
- John Grady
- Lennox Lewis
- John Ramsey
- Will Smith
- Mike Tyson
- Jan Waddell
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
- Rahaman Ali
- Victor Bender
- Howard Bingham
- The Honorable John Y. Brown
- George Chuvalo
- Ronald DiNicola
- George Foreman
- Larry Holmes
- Gene Kilroy
- Jerry Perenchio
- Michael Phenner
- Dr. Harvey Sloane
- Cleve Walker
- Harlan Werner
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