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Abdul-Jabbar met Habiba Abdul-Jabbar (born Janice Brown) at a Lakers game during his senior year at UCLA. [257] They married in 1971, [258] and together had three children: daughters Habiba and Sultana and son Kareem Jr., who played basketball at Western Kentucky after attending Valparaiso. [259] [260] Abdul-Jabbar and Janice divorced in 1978 ...
Brown was born Janice Olivia Allen in Greenville, Alabama, in 1949. [1] Her father was a World War II veteran who sharecropped a leased 158-acre plot before reenlisting. . After her parents separated, she was raised primarily by her paternal grandmother until, as a teenager, she moved to Sacramento, California, with her mother who was a
In New York, he continued trying to convince members to defect from Muhammad. In 1970, Khaalis converted basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was formerly known as Lew Alcindor. In 1971 Jabbar donated a $78,000 field stone mansion for Khaalis' headquarters in Washington, D.C. [2]
Janice Brown made history as the first Black person to be hired by the Rockford Fire Department in 1973. She died this week at age 76.
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.
UPDATE: 12/19, 2 p.m. ET — “You may have heard that Humpty Kareem had a great fall. It’s true,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote via his Substack on Monday, December 18. “I was at The Manhattan ...
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In 1967, Abdul-Jabbar sat alongside Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali and Bill Russell to support Muhammad Ali as he was protesting being drafted to the Vietnam War. At the time, Abdul Jabbar was just 20 ...