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Activist and Black Panther co-founder, Elbert ‘Big Man’ Howard, dies at 80
July 26, 2018He, along with Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, was one of six people who founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland in October 1966.
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Artist Ben Shahn was moved by the Tom Mooney case
July 25, 2018Ben Shahn was moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) currently has a display of these works...
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Nelson Mandela: 100 years since his birth
July 16, 2018Celebrating the centennial of a hero of South African liberation.
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Injecting life into socialism: Post-1956 Hungarian art and Soviet flower power
July 12, 2018If you have received opinions, best leave them at the door when you visit the Wende Museum of the Cold War.
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Socialism’s contradictions in ‘the other Germany’ and the Third World
July 11, 2018While East German leaders were confounded by some of the notions of their Mozambican brothers and sisters, Maoist Chinese students, or how to handle Angela Davis, they did seem deeply committed to making socialism real.
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