Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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This day in history: The Great American Meatout
March 20, 2015The day promotes a meat-free diet to improve health, protect the environment, and save animals.
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A lynching in New Orleans
February 18, 2015How recent these events! How deeply seared in living human memory!
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Today in African American history: An important birthday
February 12, 2015What you may not realize is that the founding of the NAACP took place, significantly on Abraham Lincoln's centennial birthdate, in 1909.
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Radical dude: Figaro unbound
February 12, 2015L.A. Opera has launched "a city-wide celebration of the revolutionary spirit of Beaumarchais' "Figaro."
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Today in people’s history: Nelson Mandela released from prison
February 11, 2015Today marks exactly 25 years since the day in 1990 when anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison to become a free man in South Africa.
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Today in labor history: “What’s My Line?” debuts
February 2, 2015Sixty-five years ago, at 8 pm Eastern time on February 2, 1950, the game show What's My Line? debuted on CBS-TV.
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Historic environmental victory for L.A.’s Century City Center
January 28, 2015After years of refuting thoroughly debunked arguments against it, the Century City Center has been approved.
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On right turns
January 26, 2015Have you ever wondered how it came about that in most places a right turn on a red light is now the law of the land? Here's how it happened.
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