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‘When They See Us’ Scribe Michael Starrbury Inks Overall Deal With Netflix Colin Kaepernick

‘When They See Us’ Scribe Michael Starrbury Inks Overall Deal With Netflix

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…
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July 9, 2021
Kaepernick to Give Up Security and Protections? Calls for Abolishing Police Colin Kaepernick

Kaepernick to Give Up Security and Protections? Calls for Abolishing Police

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…
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May 13, 2021
Jimmy Smith Says Kaepernick Could Have Divided Jaguars, ‘We Need A Guy Like Tim Tebow’ Colin Kaepernick

Jimmy Smith Says Kaepernick Could Have Divided Jaguars, ‘We Need A Guy Like Tim Tebow’

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…
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May 13, 2021
NFL HOFer Eric Dickerson: ‘It’s Bulls–t’ Tim Tebow Got Job Before Kaepernick Colin Kaepernick

NFL HOFer Eric Dickerson: ‘It’s Bulls–t’ Tim Tebow Got Job Before 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…
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May 12, 2021
Colin Kaepernick Publishing Book of Essays Focused on Abolishing the Police Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick Publishing Book of Essays Focused on Abolishing the Police

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…
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May 11, 2021
US Soccer athletes’ council removes member after racially charged speech Colin Kaepernick

US Soccer athletes’ council removes member after racially charged speech

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…
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March 1, 2021
Boeing’s Disgraced Ex-CEO Returns to the Aerospace Industry—Backed by $240 Million Colin Kaepernick

Boeing’s Disgraced Ex-CEO Returns to the Aerospace Industry—Backed by $240 Million

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…
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February 18, 2021
Peacock’s Michael Smith Says Calls for Sports-Talk Hosts to Stick to Sports Are ‘So Stupid’ Colin Kaepernick

Peacock’s Michael Smith Says Calls for Sports-Talk Hosts to Stick to Sports Are ‘So Stupid’

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…
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February 17, 2021