New Yorker cover features MLK kneeling with Colin Kaepernick

As we inch toward the end of an NFL season marked by the controversy — and message — around NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and Colin Kaepernick's lack of a job in the league, artist Mark Ulriksen said in this week'sthat he was considering one question while searching for inspiration for the image on the magazine's cover: What would Martin Luther King Jr. do if he were here today?

The cover art depicts the Civil Rights leader kneeling in between Kaepernick and Michael Bennett, who has been outspoken about his support for the former 49ers QB.