Colin Kaepernick

His testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee was a turning point for the baseball hero.

For far too long, Americans have used football to sell the ideas of democracy and fair play. But for Black America, this is an illusion.

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the sporting middle ground.

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.

How the entertainer was blacklisted for standing up to the President.

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.

Newly discovered league memo from 1966 anticipates controversies over the Colin Kaepernick protest.

The struggle over Shreveport's Confederate monument converges with talk about a national anthem protest by high-schoolers.

How I learned to fiddle my way through America's deeply troubling history.

For decades, the NFL has used patriotism to advance its interests. Now fans expect it to be something it never was.

When three Padres pitchers joined the John Birch Society in 1984, the sports world was challenged by a different kind of political activism.

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

Like most relationships, it’s complicated.

The football players are following in a long tradition of protest.

Used in military and football slang, the phrase dates back to at least 1960.

It is worth taking a moment to recover the genealogy for the "crosshairs," the universal modern index of imminent violent killing.

The history behind the photographs on Colin Kaepernick’s T-shirt.