How it feels to work with Colin Kaepernick

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You’ll be pressed to find another celebrity with Colin Kaepernick’s unrelenting work ethic. To refer to him as a celebrity — at least today — feels egregiously inaccurate. He’s an architect, a writer, an editor, a producer, a politician, a talent scout, a closer, even a funnyman, but he’s always dead-ass serious on his intent.

How do I know? Because I’ve spent the last seven months working with him. And today, the fruits of that journey are available for you to read. Abolition For The People is a monthlong project unpacking Kap’s case that only by abolishing policing and prisons can we undo systemic racism and move toward a better future.

Back in March, the LEVEL team and I started pitching Colin and his team on what a LEVEL X Kaepernick Publishing collaboration could look like. We presented a slate of stories that had our brand’s DNA, some of which were…