via Wkyc: Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals wasn’t only a win for the Cavaliers, but a personal victory for LeBron James, who passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most career field goals in the playoffs. LeBron made his 2,357 field goal off a J.R. Smith pass. “It’s humbling,” said James, who seemed at a loss for words after a reporter asked […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: A new jazz conference seeks to determine what role jazz can play in today’s society, and it has tapped Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as its keynote speaker. Jazz Congress will hold its inaugural event on Jan. 11 in New York City. While Abdul-Jabbar is best known as a Hall of Fame basketball legend, he’s also […]
Three weeks after a court demanded that the state of Michigan send bottled water to residents who are still impacted by contaminated water, state officials are still trying to fight that order.
President Obama announced 21 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday, including Diana Ross, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Cicely Tyson. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is “presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural […]
Many of the poor are more willing to place their faith in prosperity gospel than in the tarnished legend of the American Dream I’ve always been annoyed by Hollywood sports movies that spend nearly two hours earnestly preaching about how it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose the Big Game because what’s really […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of basketball’s all-time greatest players, announced Tuesday morning that he has cancer. The sports legend made the public disclosure nearly a year…
Over the course of the last week pro athletes have taken the court and the filed wearing “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts and walking out with their…
Roland Martin and “NewsOne Now” take you on a ride along to Jeffrey Osborne’s Celebrity Classic for this edition of “Rollin’ with Roland.” Martin joined…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of basketball’s all-time greatest players, announced Tuesday morning that he has cancer. The sports legend made the public disclosure nearly a year after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. “Having lost one of my closest friends to a different, highly aggressive form of leukemia, I knew how serious my diagnosis was,” said […]
When you think of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you think of the dominant center for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers, the six-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer and the league’s All-Time Leading Scorer. He is also an author, historian and actor. Now you can add survivor and advocate to the list. Abdul-Jabbar, who […]
George Washington Carver and Madame C. J. Walker are names at the top of virtually every black inventors list, but how about fellow creators such as James E. West and Frederick McKinley Jones? They’re lesser-known names that basketball legend-turned-author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set out to highlight in his book What Color Is My World?: The Lost […]
