The Panopticon Review: LONG LIVE THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION: (It's Now) 10 Years Since The Protest of Colin Kaepernick. The Innate Beauty of Real Struggle in the Public Sphere Is That As Usual, What Goes Around Comes Around.. Thank You Colin...

Friday, October 2, 2026

LONG LIVE THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION: (It's Now) 10 Years Since The Protest of Colin Kaepernick. The Innate Beauty of Real Struggle in the Public Sphere Is That As Usual, What Goes Around Comes Around.. Thank You Colin...

10 Years Since The Protest of Colin Kaepernick

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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wvkJEldKtM&t=4s

Premiered August 14, 2026

#ColinKaepernick #imwithkap

August 14, 2016 was the first day @kaepernick7 sat peacefully to protest against police violence & systemic racism. His heroic and selfless action cost him the career he loved in the NFL. He was blackballed, demonized, and ridiculed for challenging injustice but he never stopped fighting for the people. Ten years later, #ColinKaepernick remains unwavering in his fight for the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities.

HE STILL remains committed to the work. And… WE remain committed to standing with him. Thank you Kap!!!!

#imwithkap #stillwithkap

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

"There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on. That's people like Billie Holiday and I hope that I will be that lucky, but meanwhile, the function, so far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times, whatever that might be."

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Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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Friday, October 2, 2026

LONG LIVE THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION: (It's Now) 10 Years Since The Protest of Colin Kaepernick. The Innate Beauty of Real Struggle in the Public Sphere Is That As Usual, What Goes Around Comes Around.. Thank You Colin...

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