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A triumphant must-see show about Paul Robeson
May 2, 2014Daniel Beaty doesn't miss a beat in his one-man tribute to African American Paul Robeson, the son of a runaway slave who went on to become an actor, activist and Renaissance Man.
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Cuba, culture and the battle of ideas
April 25, 2014A wide ranging debate including the nature of socialism, Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union and its past.
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Today in eco-history: Thoreau wrote “Wildness is the preservation of the world”
April 23, 2014On this day in 1851 Henry David Thoreau posits in an address to the Concord Lyceum his famous thesis that "in Wildness is the preservation of the World."
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“Cesar’s Last Fast”: The last shall be first
April 21, 2014Jesus may have had a Last Supper but Cesar Chavez had a Final Fast.
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Today in eco-history: 1906 San Francisco earthquake
April 18, 2014The tremor and fires resulting from it destroyed 80 percent of the city.
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