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  • Honoring Paul Robeson: A hero for all time.

    Honoring Paul Robeson: A hero for all time.

    March 28, 2008

    April 9, 2008 will mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, a scholar, athlete, singer, actor and fighter for freedom, peace and social justice for all. The Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee...

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  • Celebrating a gold mine of Paul Robeson films

    Celebrating a gold mine of Paul Robeson films

    March 28, 2008

    Truly a gold mine for film students, film history and African American history, the Criterion Collection makes classic films available on the consumer market, in contemporary formats. In 2007, they released a four-DVD set containing highlights...

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  • Paying for biofuels in your supermarket

    Paying for biofuels in your supermarket

    March 28, 2008

    On March 12, representatives of about 80 of America’s largest baking companies, representing more than 85 percent of our baking industry, marched in Washington to protest the dangerously low supplies of wheat, rye and other grains....

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  • The speech that moved the nation

    The speech that moved the nation

    March 28, 2008

    Barack Obama made a magnificent contribution to the fight against racism and for unity in his March 18 speech on race. He gave the speech after a week of racist, McCarthy-like hysteria over out-of-context snippets from...

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  • LETTERS: March 29

    LETTERS: March 29

    March 28, 2008

    Keeping in balance Re “NAFTA, Obama and Clinton” (PWW 3/22-28): Good article. Sometimes I become myopic in my worldview because of the plight of Black people in America. Your articles help to keep me in world...

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