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Today in black history: Happy birthday Toni Morrison

February 18, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On February 18, 1931 author Toni Morrison was born She was the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Go see Duke Ellington’s sweet, tangy “Queenie Pie”

February 14, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

Ellington was one of the most versatile figures in music of the 20th century, but most people do not know that from the 1930s on, Ellington worked intermittently, all the way up to his death in...

We Shall Be Free!: Black Communist Protest in Seven Voices

February 12, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

In his preface, Walter T. Howard writes that, he hopes to "break new ground in the scholarship of the African American left."

For Valentine’s Day, a love poem

February 12, 2014 By Christopher D. Sims

I wrote this poem while sitting at a bookstore in Rockford, IL. In a creative mood, I heard a woman's voice - the rest is history.

Pan African Film Festival opens Feb. 6 in L.A.

February 10, 2014 By Ed Rampell

One of L.A.'s leading annual cinema showcases and the biggest and most prestigious Black-themed film festivals, will take place February 6-17.