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Christina Schlesinger’s ‘Tomboys’ honors a milestone in modern lesbian art
June 12, 2019There are probably but a handful of galleries in the world where such art could be shown even today.
Read moreCommunist Party and Labor History Tour a big feature at coming convention
June 11, 2019From the birth of May Day to the birth of the Communist Party, Chicago is a center of world labor history.
Read moreJames Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
Read moreLet’s not leave the Soviet Union out of our D-Day history
June 6, 2019World War II was won at battles like Stalingrad, long before the D-Day invasion.
Read moreThe working class becomes subject in the art of Gustave Courbet
June 5, 2019Gustave Courbet, born 200 years ago, was one of the first artists to show laborers at work so forcefully and honestly.
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