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Survivors of Haiti's earthquake play basketball in front of a pile of debris of the justice palace in Port-au-Prince.

For hard-luck Haiti, a new challenge: Basketball

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Soccer has long been king in Haiti. But over the last few years, a new sport has taken hold: basketball. Now, there’s an ambitious push, led by an unlikely cast of characters, to build a Haitian national team that can compete on the Olympic stage.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s New Children’s Book on African American Inventors and Black History

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Appointed Cultural Ambassador

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