Speakers paid rousing tributes to boxing legend Muhammad Ali at a memorial service in his home city of Louisville, in the US state of Kentucky.
The interfaith event took place hours after thousands of well-wishers said farewell as his coffin was paraded through the streets of the city.
He was buried in a private ceremony attended by friends and family.
The ex-heavyweight champion and rights activist died last Friday aged 74.
The service, attended by dignitaries and by several thousand people who acquired free tickets, was held at the KFC Yum! Centre
After a Koran reading, local Protestant minister Kevin Cosby set the tone of the event, saying that Muhammad Ali had “infused in Africans a sense of somebodiness”.
President Barack Obama was not there, as he was attending his eldest daughter Malia’s graduation.
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett – who knew Ali – is representing the president.
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