It certainly wasn't easy. One Night in Miami opens with a montage that shows the highs and lows of the Black experience in America in the pre-civil rights era. We see singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), riding high off a string of hits, including the smoldering "You Send Me," bending down to playing bland cover songs to a bored, wealthy white crowd at the Copacabana in order to gain entrance into that society. We see Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), the future Mohammad Ali, seizing