Colin Kaepernick

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…

Michael Starrbury continues his collaboration with Netflix as he inks a multi-year overall deal with the streamer to develop new series programming. Starrbury received an Emmy nomination for writing “Part Four” of Netflix’s When They See Us with Ava DuVernay in 2019 and will work with the director and Colin…

Former NFL quarterback turned controversial team-left activist Colin Kaepernick wants to get rid of all police departments and prisons in the United States, according to his new book.  “In order to eradicate anti-Blackness, we must also abolish the police,” the thesis of the book reads. The book, titled “Abolition for…

Jimmy Smith Kaepernick Could Have Divided Jags ... 'We Need A Guy Like Tim Tebow' 5/13/2021 12:30 AM PT TMZSports.com Jaguars legend Jimmy Smith says his former squad should NOT have given Colin Kaepernick the same opportunity it gave Tim Tebow ... telling TMZ Sports, "We don't need Colin Kaepernick…

Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson was dismayed to see Tim Tebow on the verge of completing his NFL comeback while Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned. "You know what I think about that," Dickerson said to TMZ Sports. "That's bulls--t. That's bulls--t. ... That's how the NFL…

Todd Kirkland/Associated Press Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is publishing and serving as an editor for a book titled Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons that calls for the abolition of policing and prisons.  TMZ Sports reported the news, noting the…

Earlier this month, the right found the latest battle in the culture wars: America’s pastime. When Major League Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver after Georgia passed a wave of voter suppression measures, the outcry was sharp. “Baseball was supposed to be America’s pastime: happy, unifying,…

The US Soccer Federation’s athletes’ council removed one of its members Sunday, a day after he made a speech at the federation’s annual general meeting in which he downplayed the effects of US slavery. Seth Jahn, a 38-year-old from Florida who played for the US seven-a-side Paralympic team, spoke against…

In December 2019, reeling from the growing fallout of two crashes that killed 346 people, Boeing fired its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg. While he departed in disgrace, he was hardly frog-marched to the exit: The former chief will receive $60 million in stock options and pension benefits. And his time in…

Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Michael Smith had some harsh words for sports-media companies that ask their on-air talent and writers to “stick to sports.” It was something Smith faced often during the end of his tenure at ESPN, though moreso from viewers. “I literally lived…