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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders
August 9, 2021As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.
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Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book
July 22, 2021Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.
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Honoring the suffragists, women in white march for voting rights
July 19, 2021They call for protecting, strengthening, and increasing voting rights, the minimum wage, and ending the filibuster.
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On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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Communist Party of China at 100: A look past mainstream commentary
June 30, 2021Riffing on Karl Marx, Francis Fukuyama infamously dubbed 1989-91 to be the “end of history," signaling that liberal capitalism was the final stage in human evolution. So how has China defied Western expectations?
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