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Kaepernick last played pro football in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.

Kaepernick last played pro football in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.

Spike Lee will direct a multi-part documentary for ESPN on Colin Kaepernick that features extensive interviews with the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and access to his personal archive.

Kaepernick last played pro football in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.

Spike Lee is directing ESPN's multipart documentary on Colin Kaepernick, which will help the athlete-turned-activist "tell his story from his perspective."

Save this story for later. Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” released last summer on Netflix, is the story of four friends who served together during the Vietnam War. Decades later, the group—played by Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., and, in what may be the performance of his career, Delroy Lindo—returns to Vietnam, in order to reclaim a treasure that they left behind. The film is a pointed and melancholy meditation on warfare, memory, mammon, and trauma undiluted by time’s...