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Pete Seeger and American communism

February 13, 2014 By John Bachtell

The death of Pete Seeger has sparked a worldwide outpouring of love, affection and appreciation for the life and legacy of this great artist, activist, humanitarian and socialist.

Today in black history: Leontyne Price born

February 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."

Poem: “Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota”

February 5, 2014 By Robert Edwards

From "The Death of Communism" (Partisan Press) and reprinted with permission.

Subversive words that Mr. Seeger sang

February 5, 2014 By Dave Elsila

I was 16 years old when I first heard Pete Seeger at a concert in Detroit.

Pete Seeger’s green activism in New York and New Jersey

February 4, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Seeger did much for New Jersey, taking a stand against ocean dumping . And he thought that a graceful boat would draw people to their forgotten riverfronts and imagine a different future for the Hudson River