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African-American playwright August Wilson honored on ‘forever’ stamp
March 11, 2021The 44th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), the “the theater’s poet of Black America,” who brought fresh perspectives and previously unheard voices to the American stage....
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Portugal’s Communists know how to party—and how to govern
March 10, 2021On their 100th anniversary, Portugal’s Communists are still showing that to be “for the people,” you’ve got to be “with the people.”
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Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...
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Rep. Tim Ryan’s PRO Act speech goes viral: “Help the damn workers”
March 10, 2021Heaven forbid Congress do anything to help workers.
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PRO Act passes House, Senate Republicans plan to kill it
March 10, 2021Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., declared: “This bill seeks to empower workers who build our country—and who are being oppressed within this plantation capitalist system.”
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