history
¡Printing the Revolution! Nashville’s Frist Museum documents rise and impact of Chicano graphics
September 26, 2024Exhibit is on now through Sept. 29.
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Family demands answers in Black man’s mysterious death in North Carolina
September 24, 2024Javion Magee’s death brings attention to North Carolina’s red record of anti-Black terror through lynchings.
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‘Smoking gun’: Declassified memo proves Ethel Rosenberg was not a Soviet spy
September 12, 2024Sons urge Biden to issue a proclamation saying she was wrongly convicted and executed.
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‘Their Example Will Inspire Us: Five Black Communist Women’: A book review
September 12, 2024Occasionally, historians publish new research that tries to correct the record, restore our memory, and affirm our heritage. One such effort is Melissa Ford’s latest work.
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‘Memnon’: Harlem comes to Malibu (ancient Black Lives Matter too)
September 12, 2024The approximately 80-minute one-act play can be a bit talky with lengthy monologues or soliloquies, although I imagine this may be how some Greek dramas were presented in those ancient amphitheaters under the starry Grecian skies...
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