Spike Lee to Direct New Kaepernick Documentary
Colin Kaepernick. Image via ESPN Films
ESPN Films announced this week that production has started on a multi-part documentary on Colin Kaepernick, with Spike Lee on board to direct. The project was announced last year as part of Disney’s overall ‘first-look’ deal with Colin Kaepernick’s production arm Ra Vision Media.
Spike Lee and Colin Kaepernick are courtside for Grizzlies-Knicks 👀 pic.twitter.com/Wty7lXUzHi
— ESPN (@espn) February 3, 2022
Kaepernick, who has never given a full, first-person account of his journey, is collaborating closely with Lee who plans to use extensive new interviews and a vast never-before-seen archive to help Kaepernick tell his story from his perspective.
Kaepernick is partnering with former ESPN television personality Jemele Hill, who is also a producer on the project.
No word on a release date yet, but it’s safe to say that Bay Area residents and civil rights advocates will be patiently waiting to finally see Kap’s story told from his perspective. He became a national symbol of resistance against institutional racism when he took a knee.
Kaepernick & The History of US Athletes Protesting Discrimination
Since being blackballed by the NFL for speaking out against injustice, Kaepernick has started publishing company that gives black voices a platform, he’s funded anti-violence non-profits like SF’s ‘United Playaz‘, supported several causes that help to rehabilitate parolees, and through his ‘Million Dollar Pledge Kap has helped support dozens of other important charities.
to advance the liberation of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. In 2018, he completed his Million Dollar Pledge, where he personally donated one million dollars to thirty-seven different organizations fighting for justice such as Assata’s Daughters, Standing Rock, United We Dream and more. He also rallied the support of many friends including Alicia Keys, J. Cole, Kobe Bryant, Serena Williams, Steph Curry, Zendaya and more, who matched his donations to raise an additional $400,000+ for these organizations to continue their work on the ground in the communities.
He founded the global Know Your Rights Camps to “advance the liberation of Black and Brown people through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. In 2018, he completed his Million Dollar Pledge, where he personally donated one million dollars to thirty-seven different organizations fighting for justice such as Assata’s Daughters, Standing Rock, United We Dream and more. He also rallied the support of many friends including Alicia Keys, J. Cole, Kobe Bryant, Serena Williams, Steph Curry, Zendaya and more, who matched his donations to raise an additional $400,000+ for these organizations to continue their work on the ground in the communities.”
If you don’t want to wait to see Spike Lee’s new series checkout Kaepernick’s current series streaming on Netflix now:
Colin In Black & White | “The Path is Power”
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