Colin Kaepernick will release a series of books through the children’s publisher Scholastic, starting with a picture story scheduled for next year.
“I Color Myself Different” will come out in April, according to an announcement Thursday by Scholastic and Kaepernick Publishing, which the former NFL quarterback founded last year.
Kaepernick, who was a member of the San Francisco 49ers, has not played in the NFL since 2016, after he knelt at games during the US National Anthem to protest racial injustice and police treatment of Black people.
33 year old Kaepernick, was adopted by a white family and his picture book is based on a kindergarten memory when he used a yellow crayon to draw his family, then a brown one to draw himself.
