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New film is a double portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne
March 28, 2017The film examines how two friends on vastly different social levels were able to maintain their association, and ultimately what came between them.
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Baltimore mayor’s veto of $15 minimum wage stirs outrage
March 28, 2017“An act of treason against the poor!” That is how one civil rights leader reacted to Baltimore Mayor, Catherine Pugh’s, veto Mar. 24 of a bill that would have raised the minimum wage here to $15...
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It wasn’t just hate – Fascism promised to solve capitalism’s problems
March 28, 2017The lesson is clear: you can’t beat something with nothing. If the left doesn’t come up with solutions to capitalism’s problems, the right’s popularity will continue.
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A Forever stamp for Dorothy Height, giant of the Civil Rights movement
March 28, 2017One of her campaigns was to integrate all units of the YMCA, which continues to be one of the most progressive national organizations for racial and gender justice.
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Radical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
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