By Phil Harrison
October 22, 2021
Pick of the week
Colin in Black & White
Netflix, from Friday 29 October
As a Black man with sporting talent, Colin Kaepernick was only allowed success on white America’s terms. When he challenged that by protesting against racial inequality, he was cast into the wilderness and, ironically, is now a visible victim of that trope beloved of the reactionary right: cancel culture. Plenty for a TV series to get its teeth into, then. This drama – co-created by Kaepernick with Ava DuVernay – initially searches for answers in his youthful experiences as an adopted child of white parents, before bringing things up to date. Jaden Michael stars as the young Kaepernick until the man himself steps in to tell his own story of modern America