Taking a knee for social justice
byColin Kaepernick took the supplicating gesture of genuflection and turned it into a protest movement.
Colin Kaepernick
Taking a knee as a stand to end racial violence
byLove him or hate him, Colin Kaepernick is the 21st century’s Muhammad Ali.
Cool warrior on the court of activism
byArthur Ashe saw his activism in the arenas of civil rights and AIDS awareness as more important than his athleticism and groundbreaking accomplishments on the tennis court.
Profiles in grace
byBeing falsely arrested in a case of mistaken identity during the 2015 US Open inspired James Blake to become an activist and write an athletic “Profiles in Courage” called “Ways of Grace.”
Born to run
bySay you don’t know how to do it now So you run It’s not that you’re bleeding, but you’re through it now So you…