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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Hollywood Reporter: Why Black People Are “Invisible” to Oscar Voters (Guest Column)

Vincent Sandoval/Getty Images The former NBA star invokes Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' in his take on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy: "Institutionalized racism is so insidious because those practicing it don't realize it." Oops, Hollywood did it...