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The Republican record on Social Security: Getting worse all the time
October 22, 2018One way to fight their plans is to make McConnell and the GOP pay a price at the polls for trying to cut Social Security to pay for their GOP tax scam.
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The nuclear-age ‘War of Nerves’ and ‘Red Shoes’ politics of dance
October 18, 2018The USSR may be long gone, but the devotion it poured into culture and the arts in still on view worldwide.
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This week in history: Tommie Smith, John Carlos and the 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
October 15, 2018After 50 years, this is still a story needing to be remembered—“a story of encouragement, of knowledge of history."
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Kaepernick honored with medal named after U.S. Communist W.E.B. Du Bois
October 12, 2018The W.E.B. Du Bois medal is awarded by Harvard "to individuals in the U.S. and around the globe in recognition of their contributions to African and African-American culture and the life of the mind.”
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Cuba’s 150-year struggle for freedom
October 10, 2018Today, Cuba celebrates a century and a half since the start of its revolutionary process against slavery and colonialism.
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