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Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born in Harlem, New York City, [14] the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. [15] Cora was born in North Carolina but came to Harlem as part of the Great Migration.
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.
Grier met basketball player Ferdinand Lewis (Lew) Alcindor in 1969. [24] Early in their relationship, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar proposed to Grier on the condition that she immediately convert to Islam. [25] Grier refused, and he married a different woman that day. [26] [27]
The NBA Finals jersey worn by Milwaukee Bucks great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Lew Alcindor, will be auctioned this month.
A record of the heights of the presidents and presidential candidates of the United States is useful for evaluating what role, if any, height plays in presidential elections in the United States. Some observers have noted that the taller of the two major-party candidates tends to prevail, and argue this is due to the public's preference for ...
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., American basketball player who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Fernando Alonso (born 1981), Spanish racing driver Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), Dutch Golden Age painter
Lewis was born in Oakland, California, on Oct. 2, 1944. In the 1950s his family moved to Nevada, and Ken graduated from Reno High School in 1962. He attended the University of Nevada for one year ...
NBC News correspondent The post An ecstatic Yamiche Alcindor, NBC correspondent, and husband welcome first baby appeared first on TheGrio. ... (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for New York ...