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The Hollywood Reporter: The Olympics Are More Relevant in This Time of Tyrants
The NBA Hall of Famer and THR contributor believes Winter Games athletes should embrace making political statements in the Trump era. As the Winter Olympics in South Korea approach, many have started to ask whether...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the NFL player protests still matter
Football is the perfect public platform for discussing racial disparity, no matter how convincingly sappy patriotic songs and inaccurate textbooks proclaim equality has been achieved Richard Pryor once joked about the relationship African-Americans have with...
The Hollywood Reporter: This Season’s Bachelor Is Out of Step in the #MeToo Era
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The THR columnist and NBA Hall of Famer says season 22's return to a vapid, out-of-date masculinity is a disappointment after the show moved forward last year with the first African-American Bachelorette. In...
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘The Big Sick’ and Hollywood’s Muslim-American Renaissance
The NBA Hall of Famer and THR columnist, a practitioner of Islam since college, is hopeful that the Kumail Nanjiani starrer and Aziz Ansari's 'Master of None' are bringing an end to portrayals of the...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Discusses “Becoming Kareem” on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” (VIDEO)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah NBA Hall of Famer and "Becoming Kareem" author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar compares Colin Kaepernick's protest to his own travails as a socially engaged athlete. Read more at Comedy Central
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on College Sports: “It’s time to pay the tab for America’s college athletes”
College sport is a billion-dollar enterprise built off athletes who receive no compensation. Whatever the solution is, the status quo must change In Thailand, bony little boys as young as nine and 10 are thrown...
Obama lists Coach Wooden and Me among his favorite books and songs of 2017
By Kevin Liptak and Deena Zaru, CNN (CNN)Freed from the daily pressures of the presidency, Barack Obama seems to have filled the time with reading and music. As he did during his time in office, Obama listed...
Huffpost Review of ‘Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court’ by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
By Pamela Kramer, Contributor Educator, animal advocate and book reviewer “Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court” is a marvelous autobiography by one of the greatest basketball players who ever graced the court. Watching...