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“We Tell Our Stories”— a community honors its heroes

February 24, 2014 By Michelle Kern

The Oscars may be coming up this week, but in Oakland, People's World and Mamas 4 Obamas hosted an equally dramatic Feb. 22 event: "We Tell Our Stories."

Today in black history: Andrew Johnson impeached

February 24, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On Feb. 24, 1868 the House voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.

The Congressional Budget Office minimum wage controversy

February 24, 2014 By John Case

"Every time momentum builds for lifting wages, conservative ideologues say it will cost jobs. Every time they've been dead wrong."

Report shows strong public support for Endangered Species Act

February 21, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The report was based on a poll which found that two out of three U.S. citizens want the Endangered Species Act either strengthened or simply left alone, but not circumvented or weakened.

Powerful interests mobilize to end U.S. anti-Cuban blockade

February 19, 2014 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba, cruel and reviled across the globe, has persisted for as long as the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I.