National Anthem Protesting

September 26, 2016 – Segment 2

Our panel of guests looks at the spread of protests across the country following in the footsteps of San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick, who has refused to stand for the playing of the National Anthem. With: Bill Ayers, activist, educator, retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of a number of books including Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto; veteran journalist Sunni Khalid; and filmmaker and 2016 Morgan State University graduate Duane Saunders, who created a mini documentary about the National Anthem and is Creative Director of IV G Productions and an Associate of the Legacy Media Institute.

Written by Marc Steiner

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