In 2016, the year that then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice, Kaepernick met with former NBA player Mahmoud ...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf has been out of the NBA for so long that the last time he played in the league, the Grizzlies were still in Vancouver. Considering he was 31 years old during his last stint with ...
Two decades before Colin Kaepernick, there was Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Two decades before Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem to draw attention to the excessive use of force by police, there was ...
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf writes in his 2004 book, What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America that in his post 9-11 experience, “portraying Islam and Muslims as moderate is a low priority.” The ...
Not everyone in the Cairo lecture hall last February was buying the imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s message. As he talked of reconciliation between America and Middle Eastern Muslims — his voice soft, almost ...
Shaquille O'Neal joined LSU in 1989 after Dale Brown recruited him for some time. Brown spotted him in an army camp in ...
LSU now has quite a starting five of great names on display in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s name and No. 35 jersey joined the numbers and names of Maravich, Bob Pettit, Rudy ...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf might have gone down as a footnote in NBA history had Colin Kaepernick and other modern athlete-activists not resurrected his relevance. Two decades before Kaepernick, Abdul-Rauf’s ...
Two decades before NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a knee during "The Star-Spangled Banner," it was former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf whose career and life dramatically changed ...
Editor’s note: Second in a series about basketball icons in Colorado. Profiled last week was Alex English. In another era of NBA basketball, former Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf could’ve been a ...
Imagine being alone on a basketball court for hours. Left in seclusion long after your teammates have retreated to the showers and headed home. Physically exhausted beyond all bearable thresholds.
As his jersey came down, so did the tears. From Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf himself. From his family around him. From his former head coach, Dale Brown. So much more went into this moment, as Abdul-Rauf’s No.