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Today in labor history: Author Zora Neale Hurston is born

January 7, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston, novelist and folklorist, was born. She is seen as one of the most important black writers in American history.

“Opposing Jim Crow”: How African Americans helped shape Soviet antiracism

January 7, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

"Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937" critically investigates what she calls "Soviet antiracism."

“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.