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Peoria honors civil rights leader Ernestine Jackson in Juneteenth celebrations
June 28, 2024There’s no single title that can cover the breadth of all that Jackson did throughout her life.
Read moreW.E.B. Du Bois’s story ‘The Comet’ reaches the operatic stage, with ‘Poppea’
June 27, 2024Audiences will have further opportunities to see this amazing piece of “double consciousness” music theater in forthcoming productions in New York City, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and at Yale University in New...
Read moreReverend James Lawson Jr. ¡Presente!
June 27, 2024Civil rights activist hailed by MLK as a leading theorist of nonviolence dies.
Read moreViva el 43: Se acerca el décimo aniversario de Ayotzinapa
June 26, 2024“Ayotzinapa Vive”, se lee en una pared pintada de rojo brillante en la esquina de una de las avenidas más transitadas de la Ciudad de México. El espíritu de Ayotzinapa sigue vivo diez años después, pero...
Read moreThe invisible front: An American woman’s memoir of spying for East Germany
June 26, 2024One couple did everything in their power to help stop a third world war, risking everything in pursuit of this goal.
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