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Former NBA star Ron Artest joins legend Charles Barkley in supporting the Orlando Magic player who was the only person who did not kneel during the national anthem. Jonathan Isaac, a Black player for the Orlando Magic, took some heat on social media for breaking ranks and standing before the July 31 game while the rest…

Conservatives didn’t have to worry about WNBA players kneeling during the national anthem. They weren’t even on the court. The WNBA made a powerful statement in support of Breonna Taylor to open the season when both teams, filled with Black and White players and other nationalities, walked back to the locker room as the national…

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Former star quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been given his first and clearest indication that he may be able to work his way back into the NFL for the first time since 2017. It is perhaps no coincidence that the team to put Kaepernick on its “workout list,” is coached by a Black man, Anthony Lynn,…

Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera is swimming uphill against the powerful NFL currents by declaring that he supports players who peacefully protest by kneeling during the national anthem. Rivera is boldly bucking the nonnegotiable and unilateral stance adopted by NFL owners and Commissioner Roger Goodell that prohibits kneeling. Rivera says the players are exercising…

NFL superstar and New Orleans legend Drew Brees ignited a firestorm of controversy when he said he opposes kneeling during the national anthem, inciting an onslaught of bare-knuckled criticism from current and former athletes. Without saying his name, Brees is referencing exiled quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began sitting and then started kneeling during the playing…

Telling his detractors to relax, Jay-Z has explained that he and Beyoncé were not protesting when they were filmed sitting during the national anthem at Super Bowl LIV in Miami on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. The Roc Nation mogul told a crowd at Columbia University in New York City on Monday, Feb. 3, that he…

Despite turning down the NFL’s request to perform at the 2019 Super Bowl, Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, and daughter Blue Ivy did turn out for Super Bowl 54 in Miami Gardens, Florida. But the family incited widespread anger and surprise when they did not stand for the playing of the national anthem prior to…

Jay-Z and Beyoncé reportedly sat during the national anthem at the Super Bowl and Twitter has a lot to say about it. According to Fox News and MSN.com, the power couple was photographed sitting with daughter Blue Ivy while singer Demi Lovato’s belted out her rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Hard Rock Stadium…

Colin Kaepernick may get a second chance in the NFL after all, but it’s not because of an act of fairness or kindness by the National Football League. Multiple NFL teams are simply desperate for quality quarterbacks. The NFL has announced it will hold a private workout with Kaepernick, 32, at an undisclosed location in…

A 39-year-old man was arrested after he snatched up a teen boy without notice and slammed him head-first into the ground for not taking his cap off during the national anthem. Curt James Brockway is facing a felony assault of a minor charge in Montana for picking up a 13-year-old boy and slamming him with…

Motown legend Gladys Knight incurred the wrath of Black Americans and members of the pro-Colin Kaepernick camp when she chose to throw shade at the former NFL quarterback for using the national anthem as a platform to stage his famous protests against police brutality. Knight, 74, was responding to the tidal wave of hate she…

Some people never fathomed they would see Colin Kaepernick running back onto the football field again. Well, now the nearly impossible looks as if it could soon become a reality. The much-maligned former quarterback’s attorney Mark Geragos spoke with TMZ in a live interview and said two NFL teams are interested in signing Kaepernick. “I would just…

We’re all familiar with how NFL owners quickly acquiesced to Donald Trump’s demands after he smacked them around with his misguided political fury and shaming owners for allowing players to “disrespect” the American flag and U.S. military. There is one NFL owner, David Tepper of the Carolina Panthers, who has dissented from the monolithic NFL ownership group.…

Who needs the National Football League when you are getting so much love (and money) from shoe apparel companies and your own hometown? NFL casualty Colin Kaepernick will most likely never be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. But more than 2,000 miles away in California is a place that…

One way to deal with the never-ending national anthem protest controversy in the NFL, which refuses to go away regardless of NFL machinations and presidential condemnation and right-wing vilification, is to actually not deal with it at all. That is what ESPN has decided to do when it comes to its “Monday Night Football” telecasts.…

In defiance of President Donald Trump and some NFL team owners, players this past Thursday night chose to protest in silence during the playing of the national anthem. Players on five teams mounted dome protests in the ongoing debate with taking a knee in remembrance of those who have fallen victim to police violence. The…

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been on the receiving end of a lot of enemy fire after he said it wasn’t appropriate to kneel during the national anthem as a way to protest police brutality and judicial inequality. However, the backlash spilled off from social media as an artist created a mural of Prescott in…

This past week, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones gave his players marching orders by mandating all team players standing during the playing of the national anthem. “You know where I stand,” he said, “our team knows where I stand. That is where we are. Our policy is you stand during the anthem, toe on the…

The former wife of venerated boxer Muhammad Ali blasted Donald Trump twice with one swipe for ignorantly telling the media that he was considering providing a presidential pardon for the beloved pugilist and activist. First off, Muhammad Ali doesn’t need a presidential pardon. And if he were alive he probably wouldn’t want one from an…

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The case of Colin Kaepernick’s alleged banishment from the NFL just got real. The exiled NFL quarterback and his legal team plan to haul Donald Trump before the courts because the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback says he’s going to prove that Trump broke the law by illegally using the office of the presidency to illegally…