Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was a gifted basketball player whose decision to protest racial injustice by refusing to stand for the national anthem was met with swift retribution and a shortening of his ...

In the latest edition of the Nuggets Ink podcast, beat writer Mike Singer chats with former Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf following the release of his Showtime documentary “Stand.” Among the topics ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf opens up about getting blackballed from the NBA after refusing to stand for the national anthem in 1996. The former Denver Nuggets guard discusses how his religious beliefs led to ...

A professional athlete protests injustice by sitting out the National Anthem. There’s a firestorm, and before long, his career is over. While there is a connection, this is not a story about former ...

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 ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, a former NBA star and social justice activist, visited the University of the Pacific on Tuesday as part of its Black History Month celebration this month. In an interview that ...

On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf joins the show. Dave Zirin Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the ...

Former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to open up about his controversial career in the NBA being cut short for refusing to stand up for the national anthem in 1996 in ...

Two decades before Colin Kaepernick took a knee there was the story of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. He had the skills and ability of Stephen Curry and was at the top of his game in the 1990s.

Showtime Sports Documentary Films presents Stand, the feature-length documentary that explores the life of basketball prodigy Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – born Chris Jackson in Gulfport, Mississippi – who ...

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 ...