Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed.

Fiction Graph I I Only Cry with Emoticons i By Yuvi Zalkow Red Hen, 2022 This clever and humorous novel explores the emotional life of a forty-five-year-old man coping with the absurdity of his work at a tech company, a divorce, and his relationship with his seven-year-old son. I The Panthers Can't Save Us Now i By Cedric Johnson Verso, 2022 A Black political scientist argues that fundamental social and economic change cannot be achieved by a movement that focuses only on race and not on class. I The Kaepernick Effect i By Dave Zirin New Press, 2021 Across America, high school, college, and professional athletes were inspired to take action themselves when quarterback Colin Kaepernick knelt before games to protest systemic racism. [Extracted from the article]