Colin Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and former NFL quarterback who played six seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, and he is best known for kneeling during the U.S. national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality and racial inequality. He edited Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies, a collection of essays with Robin D.G. Kelley, and he wrote the memoir The Perilous Fight. Earlier, he played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack.
