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“Philomena:” heartbreak, fortitude, and search for closure

January 7, 2014

It's something of a "buddy movie," one of many where two people with great dissimilarities are teamed together in some common objective over which they have no agreement.

Cuba – 55 years of ideas and truth

January 6, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of their revolution's victory.

Today in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born

January 6, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.

Richard Hart, Jamaican Marxist and historian, dies

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Richard Hart, a towering figure of the Jamaican and Caribbean left, died in Bristol, England, on Dec. 21, 2013, at 96 years of age.

Today in labor history: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts first woman

January 3, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On Jan. 3, 1987, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame admitted its first woman performer, Detroit legend Aretha Franklin.