This drawing was done by Muhammad Ali for an article in Avant Garde magazine, 1967. Ali provided commentary to the works included in the article and about this work, he said This is a comparison of the two religions and what they offer us here in America. The moon and star in the flag of Islam represent freedom and justice. This is what we get once we orphans come into the religion of Islam. On the other side, I have what past religions have offered the Negro: slavery, suffering and death. The Christian so-called Negro is being lynched.

Exhibited: Muhammad Ali: World Premier Art Exhibition, Roseland Grand Ballroom, New York, January, 1979.
Provenance: From the Collection of Rodney Hilton Brown, formerly President of Hilton Fine Arts, Ltd., publisher of Muhammad Ali’s limited edition silkscreen prints, 1978.
Literature: Avant Garde magazine, Issue One, January, 1968 (illus.)
BROWN, Rodney Hilton, Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story: Painter, Poet & Prophet, Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2021, p. 45 (illus.)