Colin Kaepernick

Former NFL quarterback and original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick, took to Twitter on Wednesday to call modern policing a “white supremacist institution” that needs to be “abolished.” As protests spread across the country in the wake of a Grand Jury indictment in the Breonna Taylor case which saw one officer…

In the last decade of the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she saw herself crowned a feminist icon. The meme-fication of the precedent-setting women’s rights attorney and judge first took root in 2013, with a post quoting from her dissent in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme…

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused the league of running "propaganda" that proclaims to care about Black lives while it simultaneously undermines fellow free agent Eric Reid for speaking out in support of the Black community.Kaepernick criticized the league Sunday for "actively blackballing" Reid, who was the second NFL player…

A new report questions the sincerity of teams who expressed interest earlier this summer in bringing quarterback Colin Kaepernick back to the NFL.Citing a source, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio called that interest “fake” and said it resulted “seemingly out of guilt” during the aftermath of the Memorial Day weekend…

Bob Leverone/Associated PressColin Kaepernick led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl and NFC Championship Game in back-to-back years during the 2012 and 2013 seasons. He also threw for 16 touchdowns to just four interceptions in 2016.Yet he has remained unsigned ever since.When pressed for an opinion about that…

There are few symbols more potent in American life than the national flag. Colin Kaepernick helped fuel a movement by kneeling during a ceremony that honors it; President Donald Trump once proposed stripping the citizenship of anyone who desecrates it. But for all the reverence and affinity that comes with…

On Tuesday the NFL announced what it would be doing to raise awareness for police violence and social justice, and unsurprisingly it has no teeth. The phrases “It Takes All Of Us” and “End Racism” will be visible in end zones, and outside of that everything is on the players.…

Scott Gleeson   | USA TODAY Back in 1992, Craig Hodges had a Colin Kaepernick-esque conclusion to his NBA career. After winning two championships with the Chicago Bulls and claiming the 3-point contest title three consecutive years, Hodges found himself out of the league, playing his final game at age 31. Much…

On September 11, 2017, Jemele Hill tweeted, “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounding himself w/ other white supremacists.” And, even though the 99-character pronouncement came a few weeks after Trump referred to a group of white nationalist protesters as “very fine people,” pearls were firmly clutched.…

Last fall, only a handful of people had reason to regularly think about Kelly Loeffler, then a cryptocurrency executive and hands-off owner of the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Atlanta Dream. Now, as a member of the Senate running in a special election, she is functioning as the focal point of…