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This week in history: Sex scientist Magnus Hirschfeld

May 14, 2018 By Peter Tatchell

His Scientific Humanitarian Committee, founded in Germany in 1897, blazed the trail of gay rights.

Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ is a powerful posthumous act of resistance

May 11, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”—Zora Neale Hurston

Marxism: A living science 200 years later

May 11, 2018 By Rick Nagin

Simply criticizing capitalism does not make someone a Marxist. You've got to be in the thick of the battle for human liberation.

I was curious, so I saw ‘The Death of Stalin’

May 11, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps Marx was right when he wrote that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.

Remembering the 1968 East Los Angeles high school blowouts

May 11, 2018 By Miguel Roura

I had graduated a year earlier from Lincoln High School not knowing how to read and write proficiently. Now I was marching with others, shouting: "Education not eradication!"