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Kirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled

February 6, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

“I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”

Pioneering Black journalist Gwen Ifill honored on a U.S. stamp

February 3, 2020 By Special to People’s World

Gwendolyn (Gwen) L. Ifill, born on September 29, 1955, was a trailblazer American journalist, television newscaster, and author.

Auschwitz, a poem

January 24, 2020 By Seymour Joseph

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The continuing legacy and call to conscience

January 17, 2020 By Karamo Muchuri Sulieman

Perhaps it was not the man but the circumstances, challenges, and experiences that produced greatness in King.

Rewriting the United States’ past (and future): The 1619 Project and its critics

January 17, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

It's time to rethink everything you thought you knew about U.S. history.