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Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
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“Opposing Jim Crow”: How African Americans helped shape Soviet antiracism
January 7, 2014"Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937" critically investigates what she calls "Soviet antiracism."
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Start the year with some great labor films
January 2, 2014Let me quickly recommend some lesser known labor films worth your attention.
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“Club Red”: Vacation, Soviet-style
December 19, 2013Koenker also paints a vivid, detailed picture of a government sincerely attempting to live up to its promise of "the good life" for its citizens.
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Top 10 worst sequels and remakes of 2013
December 18, 2013Here are ten films that make a compelling case for why Hollywood has come down not only with severe sequelitis, but remake-itis as well.
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