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The anti-fascist art of Otto Dix and George Grosz
July 11, 2019Almost 80 years after the outbreak of World War II, it is worth remembering two German artists whose work was dedicated to the fight against fascism and war.
Read more‘Scraps’: A forceful play about slavery’s legacy in West Coast premiere
July 10, 2019The New York Times review called Inoa “a playwright to watch.” Time Out New York called her “a passionate new voice screaming to be heard.”
Read moreNike nixes flag design shoe after Kaepernick questions white supremacist symbolism
July 3, 2019Although some extremist groups have appropriated the flag, it is not widely viewed as a symbol of hate.
Read moreFirst martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks
July 3, 2019It would take a “second American revolution”—the Civil War—to break the U.S. slaveholder class.
Read moreLangston Hughes: Let America be America again
July 3, 2019Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be, but not yet is.
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