Ava DuVernay developing Colin Kaepernick series for Netflix
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peoplemagazine.co.zaAva DuVernay has signed on to make a new series about sportsman and activist Colin Kaepernick’s early years.The longtime friends will collaborate on the six-part Colin in Black & White, which will focus on Kaepernick’s teenage years and early sports success in California, before he spearheaded a social and civil rights movement by taking a knee during the U.S.
National Anthem at a San Francisco 49ers game in 2016 to protest police brutality against African-Americans. The quarterback received both praise and backlash for the move but his activism turned football bosses off, leaving him without a team for several years.
Reports suggest he is heading back to the National Football League after commissioner Roger Goodell recently urged owners to.
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