\u201cThis story is deeply personal to me and inspired by real events in my life. I hope that it honors the courage and bravery of young people everywhere by encouraging them to live with authenticity and purpose,\u201d Kaepernick said in a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>press release statement<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m excited for Kaepernick Publishing to be collaborating with Scholastic on books with Black and Brown voices at the forefront. I hope that our books will inspire readers to walk through the world with confidence, strength, and truth in all they do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cColin Kaepernick\u2019s inspiring story, with themes of identity, race, and self-esteem, will resonate deeply with all kids,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ellie Berger<\/span>, president and publisher of Scholastic Trade Publishing. \u201cWe are privileged to bring this work to young readers around the world for the very first time.\u201d<\/span>
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I<\/span> <\/span>Color Myself<\/em> <\/span>Different, illustrated by Eric Wilkerson, was released on April 5. The book chronicles the true story of a young Kaepernick\u2019s journey of self-discovery. According to <\/span><\/span>PEOPLE<\/a>, the new children\u2019s author recounts what it was like to identify himself as a Black boy growing up in a white adoptive family. The lesson he learned during a drawing assignment, coupled with his love for reading as a child, speaks to Kaepernick\u2019s goal of representing Blackness in his books.<\/span>
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\u201cWhen I was 5-years-old, I was given an assignment in school: \u2018draw a picture of yourself and your family.\u2019 I drew my white adoptive family with a yellow crayon and then picked up a brown crayon to draw myself.\u201d<\/p>

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He continued: \u201cThis revelatory moment taught me an important lesson about embracing my Black identity through the power of self-love and eventually helped me to understand how my brown skin was connected to my Blackness.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick, renowned activist and athlete, and Scholastic, the global children\u2019s publishing, education, and media company, announce a multibook publishing deal for children\u2019s books, including the recent release of\u00a0I Color Myself Different. When the former NFL quarterback took a knee in protest in 2016, Kaepernick took his\u00a0activism\u00a0to new heights. Now, in his first autobiographical picture […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,136],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-mocha-news"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85569,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85562\/revisions\/85569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85562"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafemocharadio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=85562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}