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Notes 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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For Women’s History Month: “Carnegie’s Libraries” by Alice T. Sorenson
March 5, 2018Who was Alice T. Sorenson?
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Vietnam: 50 years after the Tet offensive
March 5, 2018The war-torn capital of a despised dictatorship only half-a-century ago, Ho Chi Minh City is now the economic powerhouse for a country on the move.
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Josephine Baker: Iconic entertainer, Resistance spy, and American hero
March 1, 2018It seems only fitting with Black History Month closing out, and Women’s History Month beginning, to highlight a Black woman who exemplified strength and resilience.
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“The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk”: A Valentine to Marc and Bella Chagall
March 1, 2018Who isn’t enchanted by the exuberant canvases of Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall, with his green cows and red fish and colorful village vignettes of his remembered shtetl youth?
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