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From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and the triumphant music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong gave voice and expression to the thoughts and thoughts that Jim Crow segregation laws had long sought to stifle. In Over the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites the listener on an extraordinarily personal journey back again to his birthplace, through one of the biggest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements inside our history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Beginning with the rise of the Harlem Rens as pioneers of professional basketball, Kareem traces the countless streams of historical influence that converged to build the man he's today - the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a veritable African-American icon. Travel deep in to the soul of the Renaissance - to the night time clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties which have made footprints in Harlem's history. Meet up with the athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem's rise to greatness but an entire nation's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was created in the midst of a cultural reawakening, continued the shoulders of athletes endeavoring to prove there is much more at stake than a ball game, men and women who made music that could break your heart, and writers and intellectuals who gave voice to not simply the ideals of your movement but the raw emotions. Kareem tells what it took to get these revolutionaries to Harlem and how they changed the globe. A global that is still riding on the shoulders of giants.
