Colin Kaepernick

Netflix has been holding out on us for the past year, but we finally have the official trailer for its forthcoming limited series Colin in Black & White. First announced in June 2020, the six-episode scripted series will delve into the upbringing of football star turned activist Colin Kaepernick before…

A Broadway musical about Princess Diana, an Ava DuVernay production about Colin Kaepernick and a Zack Snyder 'Army of the Dead' spinoff. Here's Jaime Weinman’s rundown of everything coming to Netflix in Canada in October. Here are five things that I’m going to be watching on Netflix this month (click…

Telluride 2021: A wealth of archival footage and a powerful thematic thread of political evolution give power to this sports documentary CNN Films There are the sports icons who inspire fans and wannabe players. Then there are the athletes who, apart from the stat sheet, change their sport for the…

Growing up as a husky, bespectacled Black kid in the Midwest, I loved football, even though it wasn’t until after I stopped playing the game that I benefited from a late-adolescent growth spurt. Still, watching Sunday afternoon and Monday night football with my father are among my most cherished moments.…

Wednesday marks the 5-year anniversary of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem at a preseason game. One day before that anniversary, Cam Newton was cut from the New England Patriots as its quarterback. Newton and Kaepernick were drafted in the same year, and their…

It has now been five years since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided not to stand for the national anthem. It was before a little-noticed pre-season game. Kaepernick wasn’t even starting. He took his seat behind the bench to cause as little uproar as possible. The act might have…

Every year the NFL rules committee reviews, tweaks and augments elements of the game in an effort to mold football more to the league’s image. Inside of this exists the “points of emphasis” — new or existing rules the NFL is asking officials to pay greater attention to and enforce…

Colin Kaepernick isn't in the Olympics, but the lasting image of an athlete kneeling on the sidelines in silent protest is likely to find its way to Tokyo all the same. Why it matters: Such a demonstration would have previously been banned at the Games, but the International Olympic Committee…

First book, “I Color Myself Different”, scheduled for April 2022 Additional books with Kaepernick Publishing to follow NEW YORK, NY – WEBWIRE – Friday, July 16, 2021 Colin Kaepernick, renowned activist, change-maker, and athlete, and Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced a multi-book publishing deal. Brokered…

When an American football player began staging silent protests against racial injustice, few could have guessed that the gesture would trigger an international debate that is still raging five years later. But “taking the knee” is back in the headlines after triggering fresh controversy that has resulted in an angry backlash…