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There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
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Basketball Coach
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Film Producer
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
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Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.
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I needed to go to class I needed to go to practice I needed to have a life away from basketball.
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But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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