Colin Kaepernick NFL

• Colin Kaepernick: A timeline of his activism and the NFL’s response

  Colin Kaepernick was a second-round draft pick in 2011. The next year he led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl. By 2016, he had begun kneeling on the sideline at games during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality.

  World

  Jun 6, 2020
  
• Jay-Z addresses Colin Kaepernick in wake of Roc Nation, NFL deal

  “I’m not knocking anything he’s doing, and I hope he doesn’t knock what I’m doing,” Jay-Z said of Kaepernick.

  Entertainment

  Aug 15, 2019
  
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• Colin Kaepernick will play in the NFL again, his lawyer predicts

  Attorney Mark Geragos told CNN that Kaepernick "absolutely wants to play" and made a pretty bold prediction about when that might happen.

  Sports

  Feb 17, 2019
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• People are burning their shoes. But Nike wants to be on the ‘right side of history,’ expert says

  While the popular sporting goods brand received a fiery mix of backlash and praise on social media for the move, some experts maintain that making the controversial, former-NFL player the face of the campaign was "fantastic marketing."

  Consumer

  Sep 4, 2018
• Donald Trump takes thinly veiled shot at Colin Kaepernick in Alabama speech

  The NFL and its players' union on Saturday quickly denounced the president for making these statements. 

  Politics

  Sep 23, 2017