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Jon Fromer: A political life in song
February 21, 2013In 1965, Fromer marched from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. with civil rights marchers, kick-starting his life-long devotion to fighting for justice through song.
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Today in black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
February 20, 2013Born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Fla., while they were selling produce from their island farm, Poitier began life in humble working-class circumstances, which he never forgot.
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Today in labor history: People’s poet Robert Burns is born
January 25, 2013Along with memorable love poems - he was quite a ladies' man - Burns celebrated the lowly and downtrodden.
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“Unfinished Business”: Unique exhibit presents domestic workers’ stories
December 20, 2012She needed a notebook more than food. It would save her sanity and soul.
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Theater review: “Chaplin, the Musical”
December 6, 2012It's a well-worth-seeing tribute to the greatest and most responsible of artists, Charley Chaplin.
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