Of all those players who starred in the NBA or didn’t, the story of Chris Jackson — who would embrace Islam, change his name to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and become a sports lightening rod — is the ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is often referred to ... "I was in high school, Nike Camp in Princeton [New Jersey]," Abdul-Rauf said on The Wake Up Show. "He [Jordan] knows." It was before Abdul-Rauf began ...

Chris Jackson converted to Islam in 1991 and changed his name to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf two years later. A former Baptist church member, Abdul-Rauf felt an instant connection after reading the Quran ...

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 ...

In 1993, he changed his name from Chris Jackson to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. In the historic arc of sports activism, Abdul-Rauf occupied a lonely, sometimes forgotten space between the civil rights ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf ,#7 of the 3 Headed Monsters, looks on during warmups prior to the game against the Enemies in BIG3 Week 4 at Comerica Center on July 10, 2022 in Frisco, Tex. (Alex Bierens de ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf tells his story — both on and off the court — in the Showtime documentary “Stand,” with the guidance of director Joslyn Rose Lyons. The documentary ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf has been speaking for years about his NBA career, his controversial stance against the national anthem in the 1990s, mental health and more. Those speaking engagements were ...

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 ...