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Universities giant and small, public and private, bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in football and basketball revenues. Stories about academic freedom and free speech have been appearing in newspapers more frequently over the last few weeks. And curiously enough political actors on and off campus who traditionally have been least likely to be concerned about these subjects are becoming its major advocates.

Whatever party ends on top in the Spanish election, it will have to form a coalition, thus ending the reign of the two-party system that has dominated the country since Franco. Late polls show the right-wing PP taking a beating, dropping from 44 percent that it won four years ago to 28%, but it will still win the largest number of votes of any one party. Followed by the Socialists, at 21%, the center-right Ciudadanos Party at 19%, and the left-wing Podemos Party at 15.7%

The Sanders campaign is resurrecting socialist electoral politics and paving the way for a more radical public discourse. Only the revival of a decimated labor movement and the rebirth of socialist political parties that can bring them all together could result in the major redistribution of wealth and power that would allow real movement on these individual issues.

Ted Cruz leads way as candidates discuss carpet-bombing and attacking terrorists’ families, despite Geneva Conventions ban on ‘indiscriminate attacks’

At the launch of the Stuart Hall Foundation in London, journalist Gary Younge spoke of our present, stating, "If politics is the art of the possible then radical politics, the kind of politics that Stuart espoused, must at very least engage with, showcase and promote new possibilities. And right now we are in need of imagining and articulating new possibilities."

Republicans, voters and yes, Democrats are to blame for making Muslims feel like second-class citizens

In a united voice, Puerto Rican society has called on President Obama to release López Rivera. Members of the Puerto Rican diaspora and others in the US have also joined this campaign. As part of this growing support, New York attorneys Juan Cartagena and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan accompanied attorney and activist Jan Susler, who represents López Rivera, on a legal visit in November. The attorneys' last image of the political prisoner made a deep impression.

The pair talked pot, poverty, guns, social justice, universal healthcare and more in a wide-ranging conversation at Killer Mike's Atlanta barber shop.

According to The Associated Press, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber has acknowledged the students' concern about Wilson's racism. But he's urged them to take the rest of Wilson's career into account, including the fact that he was president of both Princeton and the United States. Unfortunately, a true accounting of Wilson's full impact goes far beyond his well-known racism.

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