Accepting rights award, Kaepernick decries ‘lawful lynching’
Amnesty International gave former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice.
Opinion: I will not pledge allegiance until America does better
I realized it was completely disingenuous of me to stand for a pledge when the words do not apply to my life.
WATCH: NFL commissioner says players ‘should stand for the national anthem’
NFL players will be encouraged to stand for the national anthem at the start of the football games, the league’s chief told reporters today. After two days of meeting with owners of each NFL team, representatives for the players’ union…
Wisconsin governor tells NFL players to stop anthem protests
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he thinks NFL players should stop protesting during the national anthem and instead speak out against domestic violence. The Republican former presidential hopeful sent a letter Monday to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell…
A Newshour/Marist poll shows stark divisions across different racial and ethnic groups, and also along party lines.
The NFL, by way of embracing all the iconography of America, has also invited the pointed backlash to that iconography.
Joey Odoms, who took the job in 2014, announced his retirement in an Instagram post, saying, “The tone/actions of a large number of NFL fans in the midst of our country’s cultural crisis, have convinced me that I do not…
With his attacks on activist athletes, Trump again plunged into the middle of his favorite kind of drama — personal, aggressive, culturally volatile and entirely of his own making.
President Trump’s comments that football players should be fired if they kneel during the national anthem has ignited condemnation from three major sports. Trump also took aim at the NBA's Stephen Curry and NFL's Colin Kaepernick, who was the first…
