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. You might not know him as writer whose work spans commentary for CNN, TIME, and theWashington Post, as well as a children’s book and a Sherlock Holmes mystery among other titles. You might also not know that since his days as a transcendent center with John Wooden’s legendary UCLA squads of the 1960s, Abdul-Jabbar has inserted himself into this country’s most difficult conversations, standing with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Bill Russell, athletes who leveraged–and often sacrificed–their success for the cause of social justice. He has witnessed five decades of American triumph and tumult from a rare perspective: a black man born to modest means in 1940s Harlem, thrust to the canonizing heights of professional sports…
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