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 frankk comment: 5 min. interview with Kareem, mentioning events from his activist life as speaker, writer,  promoting social causes during and after his legendary professional basketball career. the excerpt on his writings are from his award winning substack: https://kareem.substack.com/p/special-edition-free-excerpt-from?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=482856&post_id=163301702&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2r0fau&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email  Free excerpt from my new book, "We All Want to Change the World: Special Edition:  Free excerpt from my new book, "We All Want to Change the World:  My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 16, 2025 This week marks the publication of my new book, We All Want to Change the World:  My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today.  To celebrate, I’ve included an excerpt from the bo...

frankk comment I republish a couple good articles on the scandal, first one is from behind medium.com paywall, for educational purposes and as PSA to encourage better understanding and prevention of this type of crime in the future. Since the term "sexual assault" can be vague, here is a paragraph from the below articles that gives details of exactly what hundreds of women students of the "guru" have experienced over the decades from him. Since “inappropriately touched his pelvis” is vague, this example that JS gives does not compare to what we know KPJ to have done.  Jubilee Cooke summarized KPJ’s actions thus, “Pattabhi Jois intentionally grabbed women by their genitals.  He intentionally placed his hands on their breasts.  He intentionally kissed them on the lips.  He dry-humped women in supine poses after intentionally placing his penis on their genitals.  Several women have described how Pattabhi Jois stuck his fingers into their vaginas through their tight...