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‘Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary’ author talk with Dr. Gerald Horne
September 2, 2020A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages.
Read moreFollowing McGirt decision, Oneida Nation case continues string of Indigenous court victories
September 2, 2020The decision is the direct result of the Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, issued on July 9, declaring that the Creek Reservation in that state still exists.
Read more‘We Charge Genocide’ petition’s call for justice still echoes seven decades later
August 26, 2020The We Charge Genocide petition indicted the anti-Black crimes and violence of U.S. capitalism. The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the Paul Robeson House are keeping its memory alive.
Read moreHow Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
Read moreThe Lost State of Sequoyah: The Five Tribes’ fight against Oklahoma statehood
August 24, 2020The politics of Oklahoma statehood was a traumatic and bitter pill for all the citizens of the Indigenous republics, which brought to fruition the Sequoyah Statehood Convention Movement.
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