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Homage to Medgar Evers
June 12, 2020Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi.
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‘The Ascent’: 1970s Soviet film affirms deeply human values in dangerous times
June 10, 2020The Ascent is not the type of movie you would expect about World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as it was known in the Soviet Union where the film was made.
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Racist monuments fall: Watery end for slave trader statue in UK
June 9, 2020The Colston statue wasn’t the only historic sculpture to have been targeted by protesters.
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Ending hunger and homelessness cheaper than maintaining our Maginot Line
May 26, 2020In the end, what are we really paying for?
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Little Steel Strike: Remembering the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre
May 22, 2020By day’s end, an army of gun-toting, stick wielding Chicago cops had shot ten dead, leaving hundreds of others beaten and gassed.
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