Magic's Olympic Wishes Seem Sincere - SFGate A TRUE CYNIC would say that Magic Johnson backed off of his yearnings to play in the Olympics in Atlanta this summer to avoid the indignity of being turned down for one of the http://articles.sfgate.com/1996-03-19/sports/17771135_1_abdul-rauf-mahmoud-abdul
Muslims In Sport Mahmoud AbdulRauf. Mahmoud was born Chris Jackson, the son of a white man and a black hospital cafeteria worker, Jacqueline Jackson. Young Chris, who never knew his father, grew http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/MSA/muslims_in_sport.htm
Extractions: Muslim Student Association Colorado State University compiled by Yusuf Siddiqui and Jihan Moharram last updated in March 1995 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of this country's legendary basketball players, was bor n Lewis Alcindor in New York City to parents of West Indian heritage. He [Growing up in America,] I eventually found that . . .emotionally, spiritually, I could not afford to be a racist. As I got older, I gradually got past believing that black was either the best or the worst. It just was. The black man who had the most profound influence on me was Malcolm X. I had read "Muhammad Speaks", the Black Muslim newspaper, but even in the early sixties, their brand of racism was unacceptable to me. It held the identical hostility as white racism, and for all my anger and resent ment, I understood that rage can do very little to change anything. It's just a continual negative spiral that feeds on itself, and who needs that? . . .Malcolm X was different. He'd made a trip to Mecca, and realized that Islam embraced people of all color. He was assassinated in 1965, and though I didn't know much about him then, his death hit hard because I knew he was talking about black pride, about self-help and lifting ourselves up. And I liked his attitude of non-subservience. . . .Malcolm X's autobiography came out in 1966, when I was a freshman at UCLA, and I read it right before my nineteenth birthday. It made a bigger impression on me than any book I had ever read, turning me around totally. I started to look at things differently, instead of accepting the mainstream viewpoint.
Extractions: From 1995 to present Investigative journalism covering athletes and issues from virtually every major and minor sport around the globe. Hundreds of hours of original b-roll and interviews are available for licensing. Please contact an HBO Archives Sales rep to discuss what footage is available from the segments listed below. Go to Sports Journalism Interviews Sports Journalism Features A B C D ... W X Y Z Title Year 1958 Colts/Giants 1985 Bears Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud Adenhart, Nick Agassi, Andre Agent Runners Agents - African American Agre, Ed Ali, Laila Ali, Muhammed
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