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PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
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Modeled Text

Don’t Understand the
Protests? What You’re

Seeing Is People Pushed

to the Edge

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

THE TEXT IN CONTEXT
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b. 1947) is a former
National Basketball Association (NBA) player for
the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
During his twenty-year basketball career, he was a
six-time NBA Most Valuable Player. After retiring from
the NBA, he used his talent for writing and commu-
nity activism. He is a public speaker and has written
many articles and published many podcasts. He has
authored fifteen New York Times best sellers. In the AP Images/Reed Saxon
following May 25, 2020, Los Angeles Times editorial,
Kareem Abdul- Jabbar responded to the death of
George Floyd. Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black
man, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a white police officer knelt on his neck
for more than nine minutes. Preceded by years of police brutality toward African
Americans, the event led to marches and protests affirming that Black lives matter
and calling for justice and reform.

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