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UCLA, Under Armour Celebrate Centennial with Times Square Campaign
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's UCLA advertisement in New York City's Times Square. In honor of UCLA's Centennial year, UCLA Athletics and Under Armour have partnered on an unprecedented marketing campaign that launched last week in New York's...
UCLA Health Partners with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Health and Wellness
UCLA legend and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is teaming up with UCLA Health for a wide variety of new health and wellness initiatives designed to improve health and prevent disease. [Read More]
Developing Future STEM Stars at Camp Skyhook
In today’s interconnected world, could you survive being in a forest, miles away from home with no cellular reception for an entire week? Through a recent investment made by the Panasonic Foundation, fourth and fifth...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Are ‘Harriet’ and Slavery Films Good for African Americans?
Important movies like 'Django Unchained' and '12 Years a Slave' are vital to correct the misperceptions many have about the shameful practice, but they "risk defining African American participation in U.S. history primarily as victims,"...
Camp Skyhook Partners With NANO Banc
Kareem has helped transform STEM education by championing environmental literacy and taking learning outside the classroom. As the flagship program of the Skyhook Foundation, Camp Skyhook partners with Los Angeles Unified School District to get children outdoors....
How sports tactics can help the Democrats beat Donald Trump in 2020
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won five NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers: ‘Protecting the lead was often successful on the teams I was a part of’. Photograph: Andrew D Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images During my NBA career I...
The Guardian: How sports tactics can help the Democrats beat Donald Trump in 2020
During my NBA career I played for plenty of teams who protected the lead. But it’s a strategy that can backfire if a team don’t exploit their strengths The relationship between sports and society has...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar debuted with the Bucks 50 years ago this month; here’s what people were talking about as the game approached
"The whole country has waited for it." It's a line taken from the broadcast of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first game in the NBA on Oct. 18, 1969 — an event approaching its 50th anniversary. Then known as Lew...
The Hollywood Reporter: Scorsese Isn’t Wrong About Marvel (He Isn’t Right, Either)
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images (Martin Scorsese) The director wasn’t denigrating superhero films so much as stating the obvious, writes the NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist. Director Martin Scorsese’s claim to Empire magazine that Marvel films aren’t...