### **He is a student of Black history.**
Hopkins, a native of South Carolina, has taken a deep dive into Black history.
During the 2020 season following George Floyd's murder, Hopkins wore the name "Denmark Vesey" on his helmet. Vesey planned a slave revolt in Hopkins' home state more than 200 years ago, but Vesey's plans were discovered, and he was executed by hanging in 1822.
"Denmark is definitely somebody who was a leader in African American culture, led a revolt," Hopkins said in 2020 [via Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com](https://www.espn.com/blog/arizona-cardinals/post/_/id/33683/why-deandre-hopkins-honors-denmark-vesey-on-his-helmet). "He's somebody who, I guess, stood out in his time and gave his life for something that he believed in, and that was equality. And obviously, his life was taken away for doing what was right.
"But being from South Carolina and him being from South Carolina, I think it's something that set with me, resonated with me, not just now but my whole life. It's something that they don't teach you in history books about people like that."