During the 2016 NFL season, Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the pregame national anthem to take a stand against police brutality and racial inequality. His actions set off a heated debate, and as the NFL made their position about athlete protest more clear, Kaepernick鈥檚 future with the league got increasingly murky.
What Colin [Kaepernick] bucked against was what I think the NFL required of him: To stay in his place. 鈥擭atalie Bullock Brown
Fast forward to today, and it has been more than two seasons since an NFL team signed the former 49ers quarterback. Popular culture experts Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal join host Frank Stasio to break down the latest chapter in the story 鈥� 鈥� and analyze what it means about the power and peril of being a black athlete.
They also dig into the details of the to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness. They then review two new artistic meditations on mothering black sons: the book 鈥� (Beacon Press/2019) from scholar and and a film starring Kerry Washington that is based on a Broadway play of the same name written by Christopher Demos-Brown. The pop culture experts also reflect on the artistic footprint of New York City鈥檚 as portrayed in the new
It is literally a cradle for African American culture throughout the 20th century. Everyone who was someone at one point had to come through The Apollo and play for the crowd or play for amateur night. 鈥擬ark Anthony Neal
And they critique two new movies: , which traces the life and legacy of abolitionist Harriet Tubman and an award-winning film by that captured the attention of Ava Duvernay and is now streaming on Netflix. is a filmmaker and teaching assistant professor at North Carolina State University. is the James B. Duke Professor and chair of the department of African and African American studies at Duke University.
