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On every level of engagement and critique, Teju Cole's “Known and Strange Things” is an essential and scintillating journey.

While the Vision for Black Lives inspired activists in the US and around the world, the statement was immediately met with a slew of criticism from Zionist organizations and publications.

The proposed pipeline route crosses ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Missouri River. The Missouri River is a major source of water for the Tribe. The ancestral lands and water are sacred to the Tribe and its people, and they possess a responsibility to Mother Earth and to future generations to protect these ancestral lands and water.

Bob DeMars new documentary The Business of Amateurs about the National Collegiate Athletic Association argues that the organization places the profits of college sports programs ahead of the best interests of athletes. The documentary is billed as the first documentary that challenges the NCAA “from the perspective of former student-athletes.”

Friday is fact check day; Fox’s Frankenstein; PBS censors Jill Stein; Dakota white-out; Facebook fixes ‘bias’

Let athletes love their country in their own ways. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar;  In 2003, Division III basketball player Toni Smith took a stand against unthinking patriotism. Her thoughts today about Colin Kaepernick deserve to be heard. Dave Zirin

Without a clear conviction that another world is possible, we resign ourselves all too easily to the idea that simply “putting up a good fight” is enough. We absolve ourselves of the responsibility of finding ways forward. Ideas for the Struggle is a much-needed antidote to this pessimism. Marta Harnecker insists that victory is possible,but only if social movement organizers and activists sharpen the revolutionary edge of our work through rigorous reflection, evaluation

The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer. Spencer describes Alt-Right adherents as younger people, often recent college graduates, who recognize the “uselessness of mainstream conservatism” in what he describes as a “hyper-racialized” world. So it’s no surprise that the movement in 2015 and 2016 concentrated on opposing immigration and the resettlement of Syrian refugees in America.

"Today's announcement is just one more convoluted mechanism to avoid plain talk [and] admit to price gouging," Public Citizen said.

A new report links the drop in union membership with the rise in income inequality. But labor activists are finding new ways to help workers.