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Home » Colin Kaepernick

Tag: Colin Kaepernick

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The James rules

by Ben Joravsky April 28, 2021August 18, 2021

MAGA plays its LeBron card to scare white people into voting against the Democrats.

Posted inBest of Chicago

The freaking Chicago Bears gave me agita

by Salem Collo-Julin March 17, 2021August 18, 2021

We really could have used a win this year, and yet.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Yoho and Cotton

by Ben Joravsky July 28, 2020August 18, 2021

As always, free speech is a one-way street for the Trump crowd.

Posted inArts & Culture

This is us

by Irene Hsiao July 3, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago’s 21c Museum Hotel reopens with “This We Believe.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Grave robbers

by Ben Joravsky June 16, 2020August 18, 2021

Hey, MAGA, stop using Dr. King to justify police brutality.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Telling it like it is

by Ben Joravsky June 9, 2020August 18, 2021

Are you listening, NFL, ESPN, and the Bears?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Thank you, Sarah Cooper

by Ben Joravsky June 2, 2020August 18, 2021

At times like this, it sort of helps to bash Donald Trump.

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel stands by police decision to reprimand two cops pictured kneeling in protest, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd September 27, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Whitney Young High School suddenly cancels the rest of its football season.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner fires new communications team, says the ‘intensity of the battle’ against enemies ‘is going up,’ and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd August 25, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, two bars near Soldier Field are supporting Colin Kaepernick by refusing to show NFL games.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago area forecasted to have the weakest real estate market in the U.S. in 2017, and other news

by Kate Shepherd December 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, there have been more than 700 murders in the city so far this year.

Posted inBlogs

What does Nat Turner have to say to today’s America?

by Michael Miner October 4, 2016August 18, 2021

On the culture’s current preoccupation with the eras of slavery and Jim Crow in the U.S.

Posted inBlogs

If the national anthem is racist, let’s rewrite it

by Michael Miner September 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Take out the lines about slavery and replace them with more uplifting lyrics from an equally famous poem.

Posted inBlogs

Buried a week ago by hometown sportswriters, the Bears rise from the dead

by Steve Bogira September 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Rumors of the Bears demise were greatly exaggerated.

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