African American Non-Fiction Writers - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Van Jones, Frank Marshall Davis, Delilah L. Beasley, Cuesta Benberry, Henry Winston (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Van Jones, Frank Marshall Davis, Delilah L. Beasley, Cuesta Benberry, Henry Winston, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Gwen Ifill, Lorene Cary, Jesse Lee Peterson, R. Donahue Peebles, James Cameron, Louis Lomax, Donald Bogle, Edna Lewis, Randall Robinson, Victor H. Green, Leslie Esdaile Banks, Glenn Loury, Susan L. Taylor, W. Allison Sweeney, Michael Eric Dyson, Clayborne Carson, Anna Easter Brown, Wally Amos, Theophilus Gould Steward, Reginald Lewis, Ron Christie, Runoko Rashidi, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Steven Whitehurst, Simeon Booker, Nelson George, Manning Johnson, Nick Adams, Hilton Als, Leonidas Berry, John Langston Gwaltney, Roger Wilkins, Gerald M. Boyd, Shahrazad Ali, Kuwasi Balagoon, Alvin F. Poussaint, Iyanla Vanzant, Oliver Cox, Nathan McCall, Derrick Z. Jackson, John Brown, John Doggett, La Shawn Barber, Bessye J. Bearden. Excerpt: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., April 16, 1947) is a retired American basketball player, coach, actor, and author. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar scored more points than any other player in league history, won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards. In college at UCLA, he played on three consecutive national championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games. At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, defensive rebounds, and personal fouls. Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr on April 16, 1947, and grew up in Manhattan in New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Sr, a transit police officer and jazz musician. At ...