Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparked a national conversation about police brutality against Black and Brown people when he took a knee during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” His memoir, The Perilous Fight, is out this week from Legacy Lit. Below is an excerpt about the books that changed his life and helped inspire him to speak out about injustice. (Photo credit: Amari Kenoly.)
On one trip, she gave me a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I’d let it slip that I had never read it, and she was adamant that I’d be forever changed once I did...
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