Powerful insights from Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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"Kareem’s op-ed on racism resonated hugely with our readers as few pieces have done. More than 3 million people read the piece on our website."
Sue Horton OpEd Editor LA Times
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Getty Images (Protesters at Los Angeles International Airport demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban.) “We can’t suspend our rational minds while a schlockmeister-in-chief turns our foreign policy into the tacky ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space,’” writes the cultural commentator and NBA legend. What makes the haunted house genre so scary is that the hapless…
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Illustration by: Thomas Kuhlenbeck; Getty Images (Inset: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) Cabinet nominees such as Ben Carson at HUD (“like picking Elmer Fudd to run NASA”) mean that prominent African-Americans need to advocate for their community: “Hope is not a strategy.” Never before in modern history have we had a president-elect so ill-informed, ill-tempered, irrational and ill-equipped…
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Courtesy of ABC “There is an insidious darkness beneath the fairytale” relationships on the show, which debuts a new season tonight, argues the cultural critic and NBA legend. Sad news for the condom industry: millennials are having less sex than recent previous generations. A study published last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior concludes that younger…
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The actors sit with the NBA legend and cultural commentator to discuss adapting August Wilson’s classic — the suddenly urgent ‘King Lear’ of African-American plays — “to inspire Americans to dismantle this tyrannical cycle.” “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” wrote Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina in…
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According to many politicians, America has a life-threatening illness more deadly than the Zika and Ebola viruses combined. Its name: political correctness. Since the early 1990s, politically correct has been the go-to phrase to whip up support from people who think social tolerance has become threatening, excessive or frivolous. The 2016 presidential campaign has been…
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Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures; Vincent Sandoval/Getty Images [‘Birth of a Nation’ (Inset: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)] “Innocent until proven guilty,” writes the cultural critic and former Lakers star of the movie: “Lopsided racial presentation makes it less accessible.” Telling the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion seems to have a cursed history. In 1967, William…
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You probably know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for his six NBA titles with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers, six MVP awards, and the Skyhook, his unstoppable, inimitable shot that made him the league’s all-time leading scorer
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Khizr Khan’s impassioned speech last week at the Democratic National Convention about the heroics of his Muslim-American son didn’t just shame Donald Trump’s crude lack of American values—it reminded us of a quaint concept that we haven’t paid too much attention to lately: sacrifice. Since John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural speech encouraged Americans to…
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“I wanted to be a writer, but basketball got in the way,” legendary NBA center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told fans as he debuted his first comic book, Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook.
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