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Say no to Gingrich’s call for House Un-American Committee
November 12, 2016Newt Gingrich, Trump surrogate, serial philanderer, disgraced former Speaker of the House, according to press reports is being considered for Secretary of State. The public should know that alarmingly Gingrich as recently as last summer called...
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Today in history: Remembering composer Aaron Copland
December 2, 2015His symphonies, ballet and film scores, songs and choral works became the American classical style, combining his formal studies of music with popular American genres such as folk and jazz.
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“Trumbo”: We’re still persecuting the innocent
October 20, 2015Director Jay Roach, known for lighter fare, has taken on a heady subject, no less than the most famous communist in Hollywood history -- Dalton Trumbo.
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Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102
June 24, 2015Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
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Strange convergence: Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg at 100
April 7, 2015They were each born into poverty six months and a hundred miles apart.
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