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Documentary shows Israelis going back to the future in the ancestral fatherland
June 13, 2019There is rich compost feeding this 77-minute story, which could probably be developed into an ongoing TV series involving these complex interrelationships across time, culture and tragedy.
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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.
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Communist 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.
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James 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.
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Let’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.
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