Colin Kaepernick

Rock! Rap! String quartets! With too many 2020 records to review, I offer a sampling of some of the best stuff of the young year. Fall in love, buy some music, see a show. “Farewell to Lo Fi,” Gray Bouchard & the Dedications — Salem Wolves honcho Gray Bouchard gets…

Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan offered his latest blame against Democrats for creating "dangerous" polarization, renewing his "civility" criticisms of California Congresswoman Maxine Waters while defending President Donald Trump's economy.Jordan stressed he is willing to work with Democrats and is pushing ahead with bipartisan legislation against government overuse of facial…

When Maya Moore announced in January that she was once again sitting out a basketball season — and this year, skipping what would be her third appearance in an Olympic Games — in order to keep pursuing a wrongful conviction case in Missouri, her peers expressed admiration. “We are proud…

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) The lineup for the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T just dropped and it includes 115 films from 33 countries. The 19th edition of the annual festival will include a slate of inspiring, uplifting and impact-driven films exploring issues ranging from politics, and activism…

Source: Vinnie Zuffante / Getty There’s been lots of controversy surrounding the National Anthem over the years. Some sing along when it’s performed at games. Others sit in their seats, scrolling on their phone while the rockets red glare burst in the air. Then there are folks who strictly only…

Candace Owens took former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his fellow left-wing ideologues to school on the history of slavery, pointing out it did not originate in America and still exists in Africa to this very day. During her address to the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C.,…

Conservative commentator Candace Owens said activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick "extorted black America to earn millions." At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, the Blackout author said Kaepernick took advantage of different communities in order to gain exposure and make money."Colin extorted Native Americans…

Country music star Garth Brooks found himself inadvertently at the center of an online controversy this week when he posted a photo to Instagram of himself wearing a jersey emblazoned with the name Sanders. The jersey referred to NFL Hall of Famer Barry Sanders, who played as a running back…

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Every semester in which I teach a course on Muslims in the Civil Rights Movement at Southern Methodist University, I give my students a selection of quotes from both Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X and ask them to guess who said what. So for example, I will posit…