Career Highlights
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Additional Awards
- US Global Cultural Ambassador (2012)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient (2016)
- W.E.B. Du Bois Medal of Courage (2020)
- Emmy Nomination for “Outstanding Narrator” for Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution (2020)
- Star of HBO’s most watched documentary Kareem: Minority of One
- Award Winning Film Producer and Writer
- Emmy Nominated Narrator
- California STEM Ambassador since 2012
- In 2021 The NBA created The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award
- 2022 Webby Award for Best Video Article at AARP – “The Games We Play”
- Nominated for a National Magazine Award (2021)
Film, TV & Writing
Movie/Television Appearances:
- Game of Death
- Airplane
- Big Bang Theory
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Full House
- The Colbert Report
- The Daily Show
- The Simpsons
- Jeopardy
- Sesame Street
- Fletch
- To Tell The Truth
- New Girl
- Scrubs
- Different Strokes
- Mannix
- Martin
- 21 Jump Street
- Man from Atlantis
Magazines & Newspapers:
- The Guardian
- The Hollywood Reporter
- Time Magazine
- Jacobin Magazine
- The New York Times
- Kareem.Substack.com
- Newsweek
Writing & Production:
- On the Shoulders of Giants
- Trouble Man (Warner Brothers)
- Veronica Mars (Season 5. Episode 6 was written exclusively by Kareem and Raymond Obstfeld)
Documentaries
Journalism Awards
- 9x Columnist of the Year – Southern California
- Journalism Award (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- 2017 Legends Award
- 2018 Best Magazine Columnist of the Year Award
- 2019 Best Magazine Columnist of the Year Award
- 2022 Webby Award for Best Video Article at AARP – “The Games We Play”
