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Article: Abu Bakr, from basketball player to social activist.(The Providence Journal)
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- December 16, 2000
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PROVIDENCE _ F. Scott Fitzgerald once said American lives don't have any second acts.
And he wasn't even talking about college basketball players.
Then again, he never met Abu Bakr.
Once Bakr was a basketball player at the University of Rhode Island, good enough to play professionally in Europe, one of those kids for whom basketball was a passport from the inner city to a college education. Now he's URI's director of Organizational Development Counseling.
But that's just the title.
Bakr is really a social activist, a man who says he's always trying "to give something, to make a difference." A man who has come very far from ...