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…years. Baseball not only serves as the national pastime—it helped create our national anthem. Burns’ third episode recounts the incident at Game 1 of the 1918 World Series, where a…

…and never unseen or unheard, is “Stand,” Scarborough’s latest anthem. Anthem may be overselling it a bit. Let’s just agree that it is a song and, per Scarborough’s own statement,…

…is known for taking a knee in a post-game prayer. Kaepernick’s story is better-known. After a five-year pro career, he decided to take a knee during the national anthem at…

…household name outside of football when, as a San Francisco 49er, he began kneeling for the national anthem in August 2016. When first asked about it, Kaepernick said, “I am…

…to kneel while the national anthem was sung to protest injustice. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1037449228434460673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1037449228434460673%7Ctwcon%5Elogo&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fnikes-colin-kaepernick-just-do-it-ad-just-dropped-early%2F Nike’s net favorability fell among all groups within the 8,000 people surveyed for the report. Among millennials, the…

…before a recent game, players from both teams walked off the court during the national anthem. Rather than empowering athletes, fans, or the special interest groups that court their favor,…

…national anthem, before every game this year.” What do you think the NFL cares more about? Pre-game music? Or non-guaranteed contracts for its majority-black workforce? This is the playbook: When…

…by the federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health. That means we actually receive unearned income (trust me, the taxes are confusing). This job, obviously, does not provide state…

Last week’s hack of the personal information of 80 million Anthem customers and employees has alarmed people throughout the health-care and financial services industries, but it could be small potatoes…

…the Anthem BCBS Multi-State Plan that cost $1,060 per month before subsidies. That’s when weird starting happening. Pay the Same for Worse Coverage The Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield health…

…national anthem at sporting and political events. Many of us attend houses of worship where singing is a central means of proclaiming God’s word. History is full of stories of…

San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick won’t stand for the national anthem, because, well, he isn’t a very bright guy. Sorry, but if you’re going to wear a shirt praising Fidel…

…a number of reasons. Disgust over national anthem knee-droppers like Colin Kaepernick led the pack, followed by domestic abuse scandals, frustration over excessive commercial breaks, and competition from the 2016…

…line, and cheering for his mom as she was honored before the kickoff. I was there with another Oakland native, my son, for his first-ever NFL game. As the national…

…sat during the national anthem. Then, after extreme backlash, Kaepernick opted to kneel in protest of police brutality towards African Americans and other minorities. That cause, championed by Seahawks defensive…

…communities.” Last year, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during every game’s national anthem, ostensibly to protest racial inequality and police brutality. No NFL team has signed…

…filled in. NFL players can protest the national anthem and the man who resides in the White House, but there’s a reason we don’t see Schumer, whom Jon Stewart once…

…almost say this strategy is deliberate, if not for the random and uncalculated way it is carried out. Trump starts fights that are smart (standing up for the national anthem…

…during the national anthem, based on a superficial understanding of history. They don’t realize the net effect of their actions is to show hostility against the freedoms guaranteed by the…

…the National Anthem has loomed large throughout this NFL season. Commentators have spent countless hours analyzing the political, social, and yes, racial implications of both the player protests and the…

Sometimes a hockey game is more than a hockey game. And sometimes singing a national anthem is more than just a song. Both these things were true in Toronto’s Air…

…reference to Kaepernick’s decision to sit during the national anthem, at least when he was still on the sidelines. Kaepernick’s ostensible purpose for sitting was, “I am not going to…

…worst offender of choosing personal agendas over team was the team’s captain, Megan Rapinoe. In 2016, Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem in what she described as “a little nod…

…heart, sing the national anthem, or visit the White House if invited. She is not, of course, the first sports figure or celebrity to do any of those things. But…

…as policemen. In September 2018, Nike released an ad alleging Kaepernick had “sacrifice[ed] everything” by kneeling during the national anthem to protest police misconduct. Following the ad’s release, Nike achieved…

…you’re the lone high school freshman I know who refused to stand during the “Black National Anthem” because you believe the Star-Spangled Banner is an anthem for all Americans. Those…

…principle of free speech using the example of sympathetic media coverage of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. Essentially, he posed a diagnostic question about the motivations of journalists….

…Kaepernick — who became the pre-eminent “taking a knee” activist when he began kneeling during the national anthem at football games to protest racial injustice — Favre made a comparison…

…Banner” serving as the national anthem, “a national anthem that I stand up for,” proclaimed the congressman from the Lone Star State. https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1278730865229651969?s=20 Thursday’s clips are not the first videos…

…city as a free society. Over the course of recent months, Chinese officials have outlawed dissent, pulled pro-democracy books from libraries, and imposed its own national anthem, while effectively crushing…

…other professional athletes protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem. Both the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants, with manager Gabe Kapler, took a knee prior to exhibition…

…the “black national anthem” and talk about race all the time like your biology defines your worldview. It is a neverending protest, a Black Lives Matter trilogy with a bunch…

…their black-gloved fists and lowered their heads during the American National Anthem at the Mexico City 1968 Olympics. The iconic photo of the two men outstretching their arms into black…

…13 Davidson College teammates and all four of my coaches were wearing T-shirts with “Black Lives Matter” bannered across the front. When the national anthem played and with our U.S….

…University of Maryland, even though the professor called the national anthem a “war anthem.” “That’s a leftist academic whose opinion ESPN thinks you need to hear,” Domenech said. “That’s not…

…the major revelation this week that Couric purposefully omitted major condemnations of NFL kneeling protests during the national anthem from since-deceased U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In her…