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Will it be the Kaiser’s ghost or a peace policy that prevails in Germany?
August 11, 2021That seems to be the big unanswered question on this, the 60th anniversary, of the Berlin Wall.
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Nagasaki remembers 70,000 dead, calls on leaders to create nuclear-free zone
August 9, 2021Nagasaki marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city today with its mayor urging Japan, the United States, and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. In his speech at...
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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders
August 9, 2021As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.
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Links between domestic civil rights and anti-colonial struggles explored in new book
July 22, 2021Though primarily focused on the period after World War II, the book explores the earlier period too.
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Honoring the suffragists, women in white march for voting rights
July 19, 2021They call for protecting, strengthening, and increasing voting rights, the minimum wage, and ending the filibuster.
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