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Unlikely Teammates: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and His Jewish Manager (INTERVIEW)

by Dawn Dellasanta-Swann / JNS.org Standing behind the podium of the 2013 NAACP Image Awards is a man in a tux with a red tie whose smooth, dark skin is stretched over a frame so...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Shares His Storyto Help Patients at Wolfson Children’s Hospital

Bruce Lipsky/The Times-UnionKareem Abdul-Jabbar hands an autographed copy of his book "What Color is My World" to Courtney Marsh, 12, on Monday at Wolfson Children's Hospital. By Garry Smits for The...

Kareem and the Unsyncables

Kareem Does the Harlem ShakeWith the Cast of ABC’s “SPLASH”

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Remembering Dr. Buss

Congrats to Eddie Doucette

Broadcaster Eddie Doucette recalls the birth of his term 'sky hook' By Bob Wolfley of the Journal Sentinel Feb. 21, 2013 Sky hook, the shot, was made famous by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Sky hook, the term, was coined...

Django Is Wonderful.But It Shouldn’t Be Up for Best Picture.

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Esquire.com Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Basically, Django Unchained is a B movie. A damn fine B movie, but still a B movie." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Basically, Django Unchained is a...
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Remembering Dr. Buss

Jerry Buss greets Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during a meeting in the offseason. (Jose Galvez / Los Angeles Times / August 3, 1981) To me, the mark of a great man is not the...

Our Educational System:Stop Complaining and Do Something!

Photo: REUTERS/Ana Carolina Fernandes By MAUREEN MACKEY, The Fiscal Times Kareem Abdul-Jabbar may be best known as one of professional basketball’s all-time greatest players – the 7-foot-2 Hall of Fame center...