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Boxing, crime, and capitalism: Gerald Horne’s ‘The Bittersweet Science’ reviewed
December 8, 2021Incitement to murder for a thrill in general, and gambling returns in particular, transcends boxing per se, but emanates from a culture that views workers and oppressed people as things and treats force and violence as...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
December 7, 2021Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
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AFI Fest features the reel and the real Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin
November 23, 2021I love and highly recommend The Real Charlie Chaplin, which provides a penetrating portrait of one of the geniuses who coinvented and shaped the silver screen.
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New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition
November 9, 2021People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.
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Major court victory against desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery
October 26, 2021The cemetery is among the largest mass graves in the United States, but real estate developers have been eyeing the site for years.
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