Colin Kaepernick

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…

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,…