civil rights
Ivanhoe Donaldson, a Civil Rights movement backbone, passes
April 14, 2016He worked to support many "everyday" heroes who risked everything for equality and justice.
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From the People’s World archives: “Law and order” – the Mississippi way
April 7, 2016In 1963, the following article appeared in the pages of The Worker, a predecessor publication of People's World . . .
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A desire to change the world: Author Gary Murrell on Herbert Aptheker
April 5, 2016During the height of the "Red Scare," Aptheker was considered by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as the "most dangerous communist in the United States."
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North Carolina discrimination law shows limits of corporate conscience
March 29, 2016"The legislation hastily enacted is deplorable and discriminatory, and it runs counter to everything we stand for."
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Radical plots in our comics? Marvel goes there
March 16, 2016Marvel Comics has often used its fictional universe as an allegory for real-life politics.
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