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Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79

January 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Amiri 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.

“Opposing Jim Crow”: How African Americans helped shape Soviet antiracism

January 7, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

"Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937" critically investigates what she calls "Soviet antiracism."

Today in labor history: Operation PUSH founded

December 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Eventually the organization was able to expand into areas of social and political development for blacks in Chicago and across the nation.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: 1918 – 2013

December 5, 2013 By Emile Schepers

The world mouns the passing of elder statemen and freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela.

Ala. board approves pardons for “Scottsboro Boys”

November 21, 2013 By Phillip Rawls

The state's parole board wrote a new ending for the infamous "Scottsboro Boys" rape case Thursday morning by approving posthumous pardons more than 80 years after the arrests.