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Stephen Curry wins 2022-23 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award

Stephen Curry wins 2022-23 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award

The annual award recognizes a current NBA player for pursuing social justice and upholding the NBA's values of equality, respect and inclusion. NEW YORK — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry has been named the 2022-23...
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Kareem’s Airplane! Commercial: Milwaukee Business Journal’s 3rd Most-Watched Video of 2014

Top names in the news made the list of the top five videos watched for the year, with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and developer Gary Grunau attracting viewers. Meanwhile, readers also clicked on the...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Inducted Into California Hall of Fame

Crowds lined the sidewalks outside Sacramento’s California Museum Wednesday evening to see this year’s California Hall of Fame inductees walk the red carpet prior to the award ceremony which took place inside the museum. “The...
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All for the Love of Kids Event To Benefit Los Angeles County Foster Children

"Reaching for the Stars” 19th Annual Awards Event To Benefit Los Angeles County Foster Children. Spend the evening with Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Lakers’ legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! At All for the Love of Kids,...
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Kareem Shares His Books With The YoungstersAt Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland

Kareem shares his book with Jonathan Paz at Andrew Air Force Base, Maryland. The Skyhook Foundation has recently partnered with RIF (Reading Is Fundamental), the largest children’s literacy organization in the U.S. to inspire military...

Goodbye Gil Scott-Heron

I was terribly saddened to hear of the death of Gil Scott-Heron. He and I had been friends since I was in grade school and he tried to best me on the court near my...

Abdul-Jabbar Courts the Jews

By Dawn Swann Special to the Jewish Advocate A 7-foot-2-inch African-American Muslim may not be the first person you’d expect to see lecturing at a Jewish federation event. But last Sunday, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar packed the...

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stands tall in fight against leukemia

NYDailyNews.com Bill Gallo I say in jest when I hear friends complain too much about their infirmities, imagined or real: "Nobody ever got out of this world alive." This may be a humorous way of...

Join Team Kareem for the Light the Night Walk

Join me on October 14th, 2010 as I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to help increase awareness about blood cancer and raise funds to support research to develop treatments for those who are fighting this disease....