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Mary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman have been tapped to star as the adoptive parents of activist and former star NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the Netflix limited series Colin in Black & White from Kaepernick and Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Ava DuVernay. Created by Kaepernick and Duvernay and written by Emmy…

Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick have found their young man. Jaden Michael will portray the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback as a teenager in the limited series Colin in Black & White. The former NFL star and social justice activist will executive produce the six-episode Netflix project with Emmy-nominated When…

Snap Inc. announced five new and two returning docuseries and unscripted originals as part of the company’s ramping up of its Snap Originals slate. The social platform, which says it reaches 90% of all 13-24 year-olds and 75% of all 13-34 year-olds, has now released 100 original shows and has a few hundred more in…

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was not on the field Sunday, but his presence loomed large over the entire NFL schedule. Kaepernick, the first player to kneel for the national anthem at an NFL game, saw many players take up his social activism cause in today’s league games. He also issued a…

Colin Kaepernick has signed an overall first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company via his Ra Vision Media. The partnership will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity, and will provide a new platform to showcase the work of Black and Brown…

Former 49ers NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick spoke out against the mistreatment of Black people on America’s birthday. Earlier this afternoon Kaepernick posted a striking montage documenting the violent history against Blacks on his Twitter page. In the video acts of police brutality, photographs of slavery and…

Despite its platitudes, the NFL has still yet to offer former superstar quarterback Colin Kaepernick a deal to return to play. However, the activist athlete has now snapped a whole new kind of game by officially teaming up with Ava DuVernay for a limited series on Netflix. Long-time friends and campaigners-in-arms for…

President Donald Trump isn’t in favor of National Football League players kneeling during the national anthem. But he believes that the original kneeler, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, should get another chance to play in the league. Trump previously has been famously against kneeling during the anthem…

UPDATE, 8:10 PM: Having had a rude awakening himself on his own short sighted point of view, Drew Brees just effectively sacked Donald Trump tonight on the field of public debate over the ongoing George Floyd death protests and NFL player and others taking a kneel for social and racial justice. “We can no longer use…

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, has resigned from the company’s board and is recommending his spot be taken by a black candidate. In addition, Ohanian wrote in a blog post that he would use future gains on his Reddit shares “to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial…

Former football quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick is setting up a legal defense fund to help protesters arrested in Minneapolis’s street confrontations. In his NFL playing days, Kaepernick started a movement by kneeling before the national anthem to protest injustice and alleged police violence. After…

Controversial Colin Kaepernick, who caused an uproar in the National Football League by becoming the first player to take a knee during the national anthem, is releasing his memoir. Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has been out of football since 2016 and recently botched a scheduled…