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Lisa Newcomb

Lisa Newcomb is a staff writer for Common Dreams. "Writing and raging against the machine."

• Sanders condemns GOP for ignoring climate crisis at RNC

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Maryclaire Dale

AP Legal Affairs Writer. 2018 Nieman Fellow.

• NFL concussion awards discriminate against African American players

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An international media organization with the mission of bringing you voices from people's movements and organizations across the globe.

• U.S. spy plane flies near Chinese waters; U.S. upset that China intercepts it
• FBI stages COINTELPRO-like raid on Black socialist group, alleges Russian government connection

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Timothy V. Johnson

Timothy V. Johnson is the former director of the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. He is a member of the African-American Equality Commission of the...

• Esther Jackson, 105: Life reflected the 20th century struggle for equality
• Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton

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Charlene Mitchell

Charlene Alexander Mitchell was born in 1930 in Cincinnati and moved as a child to Chicago where she grew up in the Cabrini-Green public housing project. In 1968 Mitchell made...

• Charlene Mitchell remembers Henry Winston, Communist and Black Liberation leader
• First Black woman presidential candidate: The Communist Party’s Charlene Mitchell

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Oren Feld

Oren Feld is the branch secretary of Hadash Jerusalem and a member of the Israeli Communist Party.

• Class struggle in Jerusalem

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Maor Yavetz

Maor Yavetz grew up in Jerusalem and now resides in Liverpool. He is a member of the Communist Party of Britain and is active in his local branch of ACORN,...

• Class struggle in Jerusalem

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Kyle Hightower

Associated Press Sports Writer covering Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins, and all things Boston.

• Latest wave of NBA activism aims at getting out the vote

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Ewan Simpson

Member of the International Commission, YCL of Britain.

• ‘Beirut is burning’: Lebanese youth leader says country in trouble before blast

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