The War on Black Athletes
Trump isn’t the first president to show such overt interest in sports, but he’s the only president in recent memory to attack athletes for their politics.
by Jemele Hill
Jan 13, 2019
2 minutes
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
The exact date I knew that Colin Kaepernick would never play in the NFL again was March 20, 2017. That day, Donald Trump held a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, and publicly eviscerated Kaepernick—who had been taking a
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