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Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born in Harlem, New York City, [17] the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. [18] Cora was born in North Carolina but came to Harlem as part of the Great Migration.
The next shortest is Kamala Harris, who lost the 2024 election and is 5 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (164 cm). The largest height difference between two presidential candidates (out of the candidates whose heights are known) was in the 1860 election , when Abraham Lincoln stood 12 inches (30 cm) taller than opponent Stephen A. Douglas.
Power Memorial Academy (PMA) was an all-boys Catholic high school in New York City that operated from 1931 through 1984. It was a basketball powerhouse, producing several NBA players including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [1] Len Elmore, [2] Mario Elie, [3] Chris Mullin, [4] as well as NBA referee Dick Bavetta and a record 71-game winning streak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Hall of Fame basketball player, author, [31] born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., raised Catholic in New York City where he attended Catholic schools, converted to Islam in 1971 at age 24. Keith Ellison, first Muslim to serve in the United States Congress; Everlast, Irish-American rapper and guitar player
Last season for the 7-foot-1 and 1/2-inch center Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who led the Bruins to an overall three-year record (1967–1969) of 88–2, and is the only player in history to be named three-time NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player. In 1969, Alcindor earned the first ever Naismith Trophy, given to the ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer. [9] [10] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional basketball player. [11] Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter. [12]
Some African-Americans would later change their name after a religious conversion (Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) from Malcolm Little, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr, and Louis Farrakhan changed his from Louis Eugene Walcott, for example) [5] [6] or involvement with ...
Marie Ferdinand-Harris, first Haitian American WNBA player drafted; former Phoenix Mercury guard; Blake Griffin, member of the Los Angeles Clippers after being drafted 1st in the 2009 NBA draft [27] [28] Taylor Griffin, drafted by the Phoenix Suns; Nerlens Noel, member of the Philadelphia Sixers after being drafted 6th in the 2013 NBA draft