Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, formerly Chris Jackson, scored 51 points for the Denver Nuggets in a 1995 game but is better known for taking a stand by refusing to stand for the national anthem before a game in ...

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." By Ashley Cullins ...

Two decades before Colin Kaepernick, there was Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Two decades before Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem to draw attention to the excessive use of force by police, there was ...

In 2016, the year that then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice, Kaepernick met with former NBA player Mahmoud ...

Chris Jackson was the name he was given. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was the name he chose when he converted to Islam in 1993, a few years after then-LSU coach Dale Brown gave him a copy of Malcolm X’s ...

LSU now has quite a starting five of great names on display in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s name and No. 35 jersey joined the numbers and names of Maravich, Bob Pettit, Rudy ...

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two important things have not changed for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in the 14 years since he set off a firestorm of criticism by refusing to stand for the national anthem before N.B.A.

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 ...

LSU held a special jersey retirement ceremony for former guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf on Saturday at halftime of their 64-50 win against Texas A&M at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, a well-deserved ...