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Bacardi and the defense of Cuban sovereignty
February 29, 2016Bacardi is a multi-national entity, not a U. S. corporation. Its headquarters are in Bermuda, a tax-free haven for corporate profits.
Read morePaul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism
February 26, 2016Gerald Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with a newly published biography.
Read moreBringing Eleanor Roosevelt’s lover Lorena Hickok out of the shadows
February 26, 2016The play's frank assertion that Hick and Eleanor were lovers represents a departure from earlier dramatizations of their relationship.
Read moreHave you “turned around”? Reflections on my generation’s political evolution
February 23, 2016Did I "rapidly burn out?" Did most of my friends in "the movement" follow that course? I rather think not.
Read moreThis week in history: First Black woman earns a medical degree
February 22, 2016Rebecca Davis Lee became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States.
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