A talkative Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflects on becoming himself

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By JOHN ROGERS | AP NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been a best-selling author, civil-rights activist, actor, historian and one of the greatest basketball players who ever lived. One thing Abdul-Jabbar has never been — at least not in public — is chatty. “I’m not known for being a blabbermouth, you know?”…

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February 23, 2018- St. Phillip’s School & Community Center- 18th Annual Destiny Award Luncheon – SOLD OUT

Friday, February 23, 2018 at 10:30am-11:15am St. Phillip’s School & Community Center 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Dallas, TX 75215 The Destiny Award is an annual luncheon benefiting St. Philip’s School and Community Center. The Humanitarian Award recipient is given to a leader who has demonstrated exceptional work between diverse communities. Their work exemplifies the importance of…

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February 22, 2018- 2018 Writer’s Symposium By the Sea

February 22, 2018- 2018 Writer’s Symposium By the Sea Interview with celebrated author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dean Nelson in PLNU’s Brown Chapel. After a legendary basketball career, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become a celebrated writer in many genres. His new book, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, reveals the depth…

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The Hollywood Reporter: The Olympics Are More Relevant in This Time of Tyrants

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The NBA Hall of Famer and THR contributor believes Winter Games athletes should embrace making political statements in the Trump era. As the Winter Olympics in South Korea approach, many have started to ask whether the Olympics are culturally relevant anymore or are just an archaic expression of nationalistic chest-beating. The Sochi Winter Olympics in…

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the NFL player protests still matter

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Football is the perfect public platform for discussing racial disparity, no matter how convincingly sappy patriotic songs and inaccurate textbooks proclaim equality has been achieved Richard Pryor once joked about the relationship African-Americans have with the American judicial system, “If you go down there looking for justice, that’s what you find: just us.” Not much…

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