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10 years after taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick is still waging a 'Perilous Fight'

(1.) Former NFL quarterback, COLIN KAEPERNICK. Ten years ago, as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, he took a knee during the national anthem to protest police killings of Black people. He was out of the league by the next season and later filed a collusion case against the NFL and settled it. He is the founder of the Know Your Rights Camp, and started a publishing company and an AI literacy company, and in 2021 he made a Netflix series with Ava DuVernay about his childhood called “Colin in Black and White.” His new memoir is called The Perilous Fight.

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