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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...
Time: Political Incorrectness Is Just a Strategy
According to many politicians, America has a life-threatening illness more deadly than the Zika and Ebola viruses combined. Its name: political correctness. Since the early 1990s, politically correct has been the go-to phrase to whip...
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...
“Writings on the Wall” is Featured as an Amazon.com “Best Book of the Month: Nonfiction”
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Omnivoracious Blog Review of Writings on the Wall
You probably know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for his six NBA titles with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers, six MVP awards, and the Skyhook, his unstoppable, inimitable shot that made him the league's all-time leading scorer....
Time: The Khans Should Be America’s Wake-Up Call
Khizr Khan’s impassioned speech last week at the Democratic National Convention about the heroics of his Muslim-American son didn’t just shame Donald Trump’s crude lack of American values—it reminded us of a quaint concept that...
Rolling Stone Chooses Kareem’s Mycroft Comic Book as One of the “Coolest New Things” at Comi-Con
"I wanted to be a writer, but basketball got in the way," legendary NBA center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told fans as he debuted his first comic book, Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook. Filling in the backstory of...
Sherlock Holmes superfan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes his own Mycroft comic book series and showcases it at Comic-Con
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written his own comic book series Series focuses on Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes New series is called Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook Abdul-Jabbar discussed first...