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Teaching history and labor studies at @umassboston, tweets my own.
Jul 31, 2018 8 tweets 6 min read
Summer 1968: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led 32 basketball clinics for @NYHCA youth while boycotting the Olympics to protest US racism. @LaGuardiaWagner has 2 great photos, which I used to explore @kaj33's activism & tenant organizing for @nycscholars blog: gothamcenter.org/blog/black-pri… Threading some citations and thanks here. To start, @kaj33 himself is an incredibly prolific and inspiring writer. For one example, check out this piece on his 1968 Olympic boycott, excerpted from "Coach Wooden and Me": olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/05/22/kar…