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MLK’s final campaign lives on: The war against racism and poverty
January 17, 2020Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
Read moreReview: “To The Promised Land,” King’s fight for economic justice
January 13, 2020As a short book, Honey’s To The Promised Land packs quite a punch.
Read moreA revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
Read moreAt the Wende, ‘Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’
December 20, 2019The extraordinarily vital and creative Wende Museum of the Cold War is currently commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Read moreArchives 1974: Communist leader Gus Hall on the Nixon impeachment and resignation
December 19, 2019Hall called Nixon’s exit a “positive step,” but warned that the forces behind his conspiracy” were still in power. They still are today.
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