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How Gaza’s struggle reignited global indigenous and anti-colonial movements
November 28, 2023The level of mobilization and solidarity being seen right now is reminiscent of the anti-colonial movement at its height.
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Before he was a Bolshevik: Claude McKay’s radicalization is subject of new book
November 22, 2023McKay spoke for a new generation of Black radicals, as distinguished historian Winston James shows.
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Decolonizing Thanksgiving
November 21, 2023The true history of the holiday surfaces, once again.
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A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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