Tag: What ethnicity is Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
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Why did Kareem change his name?
In 1968 Alcindor stirred controversy when he boycotted the Olympic Games in an anti-racism protest, converted to Islam and privately changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which means “noble one, servant of the Almighty”. [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#00BCD4″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]Trinidadian[/mks_pullquote] Why did Kareem convert to…