Culture
Oscar and Progies: view of movies from left side of the aisle
February 25, 2014Join People's World film critic Bill Meyer tonight via Google+ for a conversation on movies and social change.
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Join us Tuesday for an Oscar Night with People’s World
February 21, 2014Join us for a conversation on Hollywood, the Oscars, and alternative voices in film on Tuesday, Feb. 25. We will be having a discussion with film critic Bill Meyer and others.
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Today in black history: Happy birthday Toni Morrison
February 18, 2014On February 18, 1931 author Toni Morrison was born She was the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Go see Duke Ellington’s sweet, tangy “Queenie Pie”
February 14, 2014Ellington 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...
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We Shall Be Free!: Black Communist Protest in Seven Voices
February 12, 2014In his preface, Walter T. Howard writes that, he hopes to "break new ground in the scholarship of the African American left."
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