{"id":136877,"date":"2017-12-06T04:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136877"},"modified":"2017-12-06T04:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:25:48","slug":"beyonce-presents-kaepernick-with-sis-muhammad-ali-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/06\/beyonce-presents-kaepernick-with-sis-muhammad-ali-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce presents Kaepernick with SI&#8217;s Muhammad Ali Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87983\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BEYONCE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87983\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BEYONCE.png\" alt=\"FILE: Beyonce (Photo: Ana y Mar\u00eda Quintana y Gonz\u00e1lez\/Flickr)\" width=\"588\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Beyonce (Photo: Ana y Mar\u00eda Quintana y Gonz\u00e1lez\/Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Colin Kaepernick accepted Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award from Beyonce on Tuesday night and promised that \u201cwith or without the NFL&#8217;s platform, I will continue to work for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce thanked Kaepernick for his \u201cpersonal sacrifice,\u201d and 2016 Ali Award winner Kareem Abdul-Jabbar called Kaepernick a \u201cworthy recipient\u201d during a video tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem last season to protest racial inequality and police brutality. The demonstration sparked a wave of protests by NFL players during the anthem that repeatedly have been denounced by President Donald Trump. Kaepernick parted ways with the San Francisco 49ers in March and hasn&#8217;t been signed by another team.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke Tuesday about fulfilling Ali&#8217;s legacy, saying the boxing great and activist \u201cmentored me without ever meeting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaepernick skipped the red carpet prior to the show and was not available for questions. The show will be broadcast Friday night on NBC Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Colin Kaepernick accepted Sports Illustrated&#8217;s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award from Beyonce on Tuesday night and promised that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[2670,37368,37369],"class_list":["post-136877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-beyonce","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-sports-illustrateds-muhammad-ali-legacy-award","mauthors-jake-seiner","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}