Culture
‘The Atheist Mother’ fictionalizes the story of militant freethinker Madelyn Murray O’Hair
October 20, 2022Playwright Willard Manus takes on the famous case of Murray v. Curlett, which challenged the policy of mandatory prayers and Bible reading in Baltimore public schools.
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A Portugal diary: People, places, and memory
October 19, 2022People’s World staff member Eric Gordon on his first visit back to Portugal since the fall of the fascist dictatorship nearly half-a-century ago.
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‘Never-Ending Youth’: A poetic novel or an essayistic memoir?
October 17, 2022Never-Ending Youth is a 2017 novel by the Brazilian journalist Urariano Mota, active in the clandestine Communist Party of Brazil during the harshest period of the country’s military dictatorship from the late 1960s to the early...
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No art without art workers: Philly museum strike carries on
October 13, 2022180 Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) curators, educators, archivists, and other art workers aren’t feeling the love from one of the nation’s oldest and most venerable art institutions.
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Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist
October 13, 2022Members of the motion picture industry who refused to “cooperate” by informing on themselves and others about their leftist politics were forbidden from working in the movies.
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