When Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49’s sat down during the National Anthem before the team’s first preseason game going into the 2016 season, he probably didn’t realize the impact he would have.  What moved him to protest was the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police

published Jun 5th 2016, 10:00 am, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — Boxing made Muhammad Ali famous, but his conversion to Islam — and the meaning the world attached to it — made him a global historical figure. Ali’s conversion came to be understood as an act of transnational identification