Black history month
Lincoln: principles and politics
February 8, 2013In this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation, we are fortunate to have Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals to help us understand Abraham Lincoln.
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I remember the Scottsboro defense
February 7, 2013The decision to fight for the Scottsboro Nine was preceded by years of activity led by the Communist Party and its predecessor organizations.
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NY Times: Turning truth on its head — The Scottsboro case
February 7, 2013This week a bipartisan group of Alabama state lawmakers introduced a bill to exonerate the victims of a racist frame-up.
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Today in labor history: Bob Marley, champion of the oppressed, is born
February 6, 2013Bob Marley, who introduced reggae to the world and gave voice to the passion of oppressed people, was born 68 years ago in the Jamaican village of Nine Mile.
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Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
February 5, 2013In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.
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