Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, says he took to Islam to manifest his African history, culture and beliefs. Already a star man at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Abdul-Jabbar got acquainted with Islam as a freshman. He resented the attempt to make him the poster boy of the American dream...
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