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Jim Thorpe’s 1912 golds still resonate, amaze
January 20, 2021“His example of an outsider who bested everyone at their own game on the supposedly equal playing field of sport was a huge and lasting inspiration. It accounts for a large part of his enduring reputation...
Read moreHomage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century
January 15, 2021The World Federation of Democratic Youth, a pro-Communist network of student and young people’s organizations based in Prague, published World Student News, a magazine gently trying to promote peaceful coexistence and socialist politics. The magazine carried...
Read moreCompelling account of inspirational Black activist Claudia Jones in new booklet
January 8, 2021David Horsley’s focus is on Jones’s life in advancing class, race, and gender resistance to the racist system of imperialism in what George Jackson called “the belly of the beast.”
Read moreUkraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history
December 23, 2020Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.
Read moreRemembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration
December 21, 2020Boynton’s arrest and Supreme Court case 62 years ago helped inspire youth-led movements for social change.
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