Archive for January 2022

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s deeply personal essay explores racial conflict through the prism of his childhood and the influence of his father, a police officer who walked the beat between two worlds. Growing up in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar listened to jazz, watched Jackie Robinson at Ebbets Field, and saw a…

NBA Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will once again team with History Channel to develop a February documentary special focusing on heroic African-American figures of the Civil War era. The one-hour documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War, debuts February 21 and chronicles heroic figures such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass whose bravery and selfless…