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Jackie Robinson, Opening Day and U.S. – Cuba relations

April 5, 2016 By Sharon Robinson

"My mother and I were thrilled and honored to witness our President extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people."

Writing black troops out of Civil War history paved way for Jim Crow

November 18, 2015 By Larry Rubin

"If we don't tell our own story it will not be told."

Groups battle “Jim Crow” segregation in restaurant industry

October 20, 2015 By Special to People’s World

A joint project of ROC United and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will establish a programmatic intervention to confront this issue.

Taking the long view on fight for freedom

September 4, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner

As one of 250,000 who attended the 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," I had to come to Washington, Aug. 24, to be a part of the 50th anniversary march.

Today in labor history: National Association of Letter Carriers founded

August 29, 2013 By Special to People’s World

With sixty carriers attending from eighteen states, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) was founded in a meeting hall above Schaefer's saloon in Milwaukee, on August 29, 1889.