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45 years ago: ‘Rebellion wins in Nicaragua’
July 19, 2024The victory of the Sandinista Revolution, as reported in our pages in July 1979.
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Woody Sez – Woody Guthrie’s columns in People’s World
July 12, 2024Guthrie once said, “I’ve been in the red all my life,” referring to both his financial situation and his politics.
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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.
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W.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...
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Reverend James Lawson Jr. ¡Presente!
June 27, 2024Civil rights activist hailed by MLK as a leading theorist of nonviolence dies.
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