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Celebrating May Day at a U.S. Army base in Italy
April 28, 2023When May Day rolled around at a U.S. base in Milan, life came to a halt.
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Harry Belafonte—Giant of the arts and the struggle for justice and democracy
April 26, 2023Speaking of himself, Belafonte said he was “an activist who became an artist: I was not an artist who became an activist.”
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The real and reel Ava Gardner: What price celebrityhood?
April 25, 2023As a film historian, when I heard a bioplay was being mounted about silver screen siren Ava Gardner at one of L.A.’s finest theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, it was “Westwood Ho!” for moi.
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‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’ completes Manuel Tiago translation project: An interview with the translator
April 21, 2023The eighth and final entry in the International Publishers project of issuing all of Manuel Tiago’s fiction in English is hot off the press. Tiago was the pen name for longtime Portuguese Communist Party leader Álvaro...
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Paul Robeson mural on D.C.’s historic U St. vandalized
April 18, 2023The attack comes just days after the Black leader’s 125th birthday.
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