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“The Madres”: One family’s story of Argentina’s “disappeared”
March 15, 2018What if your kids were disappearing, and all you hear is, “We’re ensuring democracy for future generations: Love of country, unity of the people, the same mind, the same values?”
Read moreDetroit’s Sarah Elizabeth Ray: The Rosa Parks of the Bob-Lo boat
March 13, 2018Here is the story of “The Rosa Parks of the Bob-Lo Boat.”
Read moreThis week in history: My Lai massacre 50 years ago
March 12, 2018American soldiers brutally slaughtered more than 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.
Read moreFrances Perkins: The woman who helped end the Great Depression
March 8, 2018On International Women's Day, we remember Frances Perkins - advocate for working people and the architect of much of FDR's New Deal.
Read moreNotes on the capitalist origins of racial oppression in the United States
March 5, 2018When white people shed exculpatory myths and acknowledge the truth about slavery, they’ve arrived at what descendants of enslaved people know about only too well.
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