Like the former NFL quarterback, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf gained national attention and drew the ire of his league for protesting racial oppression during 'The Star Spangled Banner.'
landing an NAACP Image Award nomination, Kaepernick Publishing on Tuesday announced it is releasing the memoir of another athlete activist., the story of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, which was written with journalist Nick Chiles.
Like Kaepernick, who gained national attention in 2016 for protesting racial injustice by kneeling during “The Star Spangled Banner,” Abdul-Rauf 20 years earlier took a stand by sitting out the national anthem. At the time he was playing for the Denver Nuggets and, after being suspended by the NBA for one game in 1996, he worked out a deal with the league where
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