Daily Archives: January 31, 2021

Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing

“In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a basketball legend. Impossibly tall and incredibly talented, he had led New York City’s Power Academy … Continue reading

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