Colin Kaepernick

The exiled quarterback stands up for an imprisoned revolutionary, bringing Mumia’s case into the current moment. The racism embedded in our criminal justice system has been at the forefront of public consciousness this year. Debates about defunding the police, prison abolition, and how to actually dismantle the entire machine have…

Then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick after a game at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2016. (Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY Sports) The video game’s over-the-top celebration of Kaepernick is not only ham-fisted, but downright creepy. Madden NFL 21, this year’s iteration of the only major football video game in the world,…

In the first trailer for “Funny Boy,” which is directed by Deepa Mehta and is released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, we explore the sexual awakening of a young boy in 1970s and ’80s Sri Lanka just as political tensions will bring the country to a boiling point. “Funny Boy” is…

Colin Kaepernick is celebrating the actor who was cast to portray his younger self in his and Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix limited series about his life titled “Colin in Black & White.” The activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback shared his excitement on Twitter about the casting of Jaden Michael, who stars…

Losing starting quarterback Dak Prescott to a season-ending ankle injury in Week 5 was devastating to the Cowboys. Losing backup QB Andy Dalton to a scary neck and head injury in Week 7 is a development of desperation for Dallas. Dalton, after a rough game against Washington's good pass-rushing defense…

Jace Evans   | USA TODAY Colin Kaepernick will be inducted into the University of Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame, the school announced Friday. Kaepernick, 32, put up eye-popping numbers in his four years with the Wolf Pack (2007-2010), accumulating 10,098 yards and 82 touchdowns passing while adding 4,112 yards rushing and another 59 scores…

People are once again calling out the NFL for Colin Kaepernick’s absence from the league after the Dallas Cowboys suffered a sizable loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Monday night.  Fans of the activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback are arguing online that the Cowboys should sign Kaepernick, who…

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…

Todd Kirkland/Associated PressA one-of-a-kind Colin Kaepernick rookie card sold for over $20,000 at auction this week, and a portion of the proceeds are going to Kaepernick's charity.According to TMZ Sports, Goldin Auctions sold the 2011 Topps Platinum rookie patch autograph red refractor card for $20,400. Beckett gave the card a 9/10…

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…