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This week in history: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

March 20, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

"The existence of racial barriers is repugnant to the ideals of any human society.”

“Battleship Potemkin,” next up of Ten Films That Shook the World

March 17, 2017 By Special to People’s World

This screening is part of a monthly film series to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the February and October 1917 Revolutions in Russia.

Irish Americans in New York organize to support immigrants’ rights

March 16, 2017 By Bruce Bostick

Irish Americans, overwhelmingly working class, have historically been on both sides of what Lincoln called “the best angels of our nature."

This week in history: Habitat for Humanity turns 40

March 13, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

By its fifth anniversary, Habitat had fourteen U.S. and seven international affiliates and had built 342 houses.

The U.S. is a country of immigrants

March 9, 2017 By PW Reader

"Preventing immigration is not the solution."