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The Hollywood Reporter: Black Celebrities Must “Be Fearless and Relentless in Speaking Up” Against Trump (Guest Column)
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...
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘The Bachelor’ Is Killing Romance in America (Guest Column)
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...
The Hollywood Reporter: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Interviewed By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Race, Family and ‘Fences’ in the Trump Era
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...
The Hollywood Reporter: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Reviews ‘Birth of a Nation’…And Nate Parker: “Important and Flawed” (Guest Column)
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...
The Hollywood Reporter: Muhammad Ali, the Entertainer With an Edge (Guest Column)
SGranitz/WireImage (Kareem Abdul Jabbar (left), Muhammad Ali) The basketball hall of famer and Ali's friend writes that no one understood sports as entertainment or knew how to bring politics into it better than the heavyweight...
The Hollywood Reporter: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Remembers His “Friend and Mentor” Muhammad Ali
Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Fight Night; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images (Muhammad Ali (left), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) "I may be 7’2" but I never felt taller than when standing in his shadow." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar paid tribute...
FOX Business: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Endorsing Hillary Clinton (VIDEO)
Former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, his conversion to Islam, Donald Trump's calls for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants and the government’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson on the...
Hardball with Chris Matthews: Why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar supports Clinton (VIDEO)
NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Chris Matthews to discuss why he supports Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race. Learn more at MSNBC.com [share title="Share Online" facebook="true" twitter="true" google_plus="true" linkedin="false" pinterest="true" reddit="true" email="true"] Related...
CNN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘People have a lot to complain about’ (VIDEO)
In endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, the NBA's all-time leading scorer says that the leading Democratic candidate is attuned to the needs of the middle class. Learn more at CNN.com [share title="Share Online" facebook="true" twitter="true" google_plus="true"...