The National Basketball Association (NBA)<\/strong> has announced the creation of a new award \u2014 the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award,<\/strong> to recognise players who are making strides in the fight for social justice.<\/strong> Each NBA team will nominate one player for consideration; from there, five finalists will be selected and ultimately one winner. The winning player will receive $100,000<\/strong> for the charity of his choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Abdul-Jabbar:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdul-Jabbar won three consecutive NCAA championships (1967 to 1969) while at UCLA. In between them, he, alongside famed sociologist Harry Edwards, helped organize a boycott of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City due to the then-recent assassinations of civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and the continued mistreatment of Black people in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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