A book about the politics of sport, and the impact of sports on politics, The Kaepernick Effect  is for anyone seeking to understand an essential dimension of the new movement for racial justice in America.

Dave Zirin is one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” the sports editor of the Nation, a columnist for the Progressive, and the host of the Edge of Sports podcast. His many books include A People’s History of Sports in the United States, Game Over, Bad Sports, and The Kaepernick Effect. Zirin has also been a regular guest on MSNBC, CNN, and ESPN.

Zirin will be in converstion with Michael Lee, a Sports enterprise reporter at the Washington Post focusing on the intersection of gender, diversity and how sports shape our society. Lee previously worked at the Post from 2004 to 2015, serving as the national NBA writer and beat writer for the Washington Wizards. He is a longtime NBA scribe who covered the league for 19 seasons at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Post, Yahoo! Sports and the Athletic. He has covered three Olympics (2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing and 2016 Rio de Janeiro), the World Series and the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

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