{"id":61304,"date":"2021-08-21T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61304"},"modified":"2021-08-21T03:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:37:33","slug":"colin-kaepernicks-new-childrens-book-will-explore-the-beauty-of-being-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61304","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick\u2019s new children\u2019s book will explore the beauty of being \u2018different\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2021-07-15\/colin-kaepernick-childrens-book-color-myself-different\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Colin Kaepernick\u2019s new children\u2019s book will explore the beauty of being \u2018different\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><br \/>\n2021-07-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donovanxramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donovan X. Ramsey<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2021-07-15\/colin-kaepernick-childrens-book-color-myself-different\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/3558392\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2063x1375+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F96%2Fc0%2Fccca59e44e16b5eefdd74181ea43%2Fkaepernick-essays-34047.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a>, seen in 2019, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written a picture book<\/a> that will be released next year. (Todd Kirkland \/ Associated Press)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a> announced Thursday that he will release \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Color Myself Different<\/a>,\u201d a children\u2019s book, next year. The athlete-turned-activist\u2019s Kaepernick Publishing company will publish the picture book in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scholastic_Corporation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scholastic<\/a> as part of a multibook deal.<\/p>\n<p>The story within \u201cI Color Myself Different\u201d is based on a pivotal moment in Kaepernick\u2019s childhood when, during a drawing exercise in kindergarten, a young Kaepernick drew his adopted white family in yellow <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crayon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crayon<\/a> and then drew himself brown. It was the first time he acknowledged the difference in their appearance, and the small act empowered him to celebrate differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story is deeply personal to me and inspired by real events in my life,\u201d said Kaepernick in a press release Thursday. \u201cI hope that it honors the courage and bravery of young people everywhere by encouraging them to live life with authenticity and purpose.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2021-07-15\/colin-kaepernick-childrens-book-color-myself-different\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The athlete-turned-activist\u2019s Kaepernick Publishing company will publish the picture book in partnership with Scholastic as part of a multibook deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[24878,14807,3909,31634,13272],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-donovan-x-ramsey","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-scholastic","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61307,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions\/61307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}