Netflix, DuVernay to make series on Kaepernick's high school years
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torontosun.comNetflix is teaming up with Emmy Award-winning director Ava DuVernay to bring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s adolescent life to the television screen.Entitled ‘Colin in Black & White,’ Netflix said on Monday the six-episode series would focus on Kaepernick’s early years as a Black child growing up with a white adopted family and his formative high school years.Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate in the United States when he protested against racial injustice by kneeling as the U.S.
national anthem played during a game, has signed up as narrator of the series.“We seek to give new perspective to the differing realities that Black people face,” he said. “We explore the racial conflicts I faced as an adopted Black man in a white
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