When it comes to athletes as advocates for social justice, much of the talk of late has been about Colin Kaepernick. But athletes in that role go back much further. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as a basketball player at UCLA, boycotted the 1968 Olympics to protest the treatment of Black people. He has been an advocate for social justice ever since.
I interviewed Kareem, for USA Today, on his road to becoming an athlete promoting social justice and what today’s athletes can learn from his story.
I hope you can check it out:
https://www.coverageopinions.info/JabbarInterview.pdf
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