Martin Luther King, Jr. takes a knee on latest New Yorker cover

[DonViejo]

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 01/08/18 09:38 AM EST




The latest cover of The New Yorker depicts civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. taking a knee alongside NFL players Michael Bennett and Colin Kaepernick.

The cover art, titled “In Creative Battle,” is for the magazine’s Jan. 15 issue, which is this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking King’s birthday.

Artist Mark Ulriksen said the title was inspired by King’s acceptance speech for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, in which he spoke of being “engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.”

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Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, was one of the first NFL players to kneel during the national anthem as a protest against police brutality and racial inequality, and has since become a face of the movement.

Bennett, a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, has also been a prominent figure in the protest movement, and accused Las Vegas police of racially profiling him over the summer.

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[bdamomma]

1. Right on!

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