The Perilous Fight

In the tradition of One Life by Megan Rapinoe, a deeply personal memoir from NFL star turned social justice advocate Colin Kaepernick, about complex family dynamics, the politics of football, and the risk he took for Black people in America to thrive.

The defining and uncompromising memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned Civil Right activist, Colin Kaepernick.

On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, but the world has never fully understood the whole story. Not the “why.” Not what it cost. Not what it took to become the man who was ready for that moment. That story begins in Turlock, California, where Kaepernick, a Black kid adopted into a white family, spent his earliest years navigating an identity the world around him didn’t always know how to hold. Everything that connected him to who he truly was-his Blackness, his culture, his sense of self-was met with resistance. S