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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: what sports have taught me about race in America
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (front right) attends the Cleveland Summit alongside other prominent black athletes, such as Muhammad Ali, in 1967. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Tue 28 Aug 2018 10.24 EDT Sports is one of the few areas in which...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Keynote Address – 2018 National Trademark Expo
“We are thrilled to have Kareem Abdul-Jabbar involved with the 2018 National Trademark Exposition,” said USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Mary Boney Denison. “As a registered trademark owner, Kareem is well-versed in the importance of intellectual...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Joins ‘iZombie’s’ Final Season
(Photo courtesy of: Twitter/imrosemciver Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rose McIver) The NBA legend and Hollywood Reporter columnist will play a Seattle councilman in the CW show's upcoming season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is stretching his acting muscles again...
The Hollywood Reporter: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the NFL, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ and the Summer Movie as Protest Song
6:00 AM PDT 8/14/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Amid Trump's national anthem rhetoric, Spike Lee's latest film and Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' reinforce satire as the preferred genre of the oppressed, writes the NBA Hall-of-Famer and...
An open letter to the NFL’s owners (The Guardian)
Tue 31 Jul 2018 04.00 EDT To deny professional athletes the right to express dissent in a peaceful manner is a disgrace to the Constitution, the opposite of patriotism and shameful moral weakness Dear NFL owners: Whew! What a...
The Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood’s New “Zero Tolerance” on Offensive Speech Makes Zero Sense
6:53 AM PDT 7/24/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director James Gunn's recent firing over old tweets and a Paramount TV exec’s dismissal amid racially charged comments only reinforce an "atmosphere of fear" and fail...
The Hollywood Reporter: Why the Trump Era’s Movie Villains Are “Morally Woke”
6:30 AM PDT 7/17/2018 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar From 'Black Panther's' Killmonger to 'Incredibles 2's' Evelyn Deavor, this year's big-screen baddies are more "conscionable" than the evildoers in the White House and reflect the ultimate problem: "Those who...
