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Pandemic’s 1-2 punch: Unemployment up, life expectancy down
February 19, 2021Spotlighting the modern-day plague’s impact on people of color, the report showed life expectancy for Black Americans dropped by 2.7 years on average, higher than for any other group.
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‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021A poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival
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UN report slams U.S. economic sanctions against Venezuela
February 19, 2021PW correspondent W.T. Whitney examines a just-released UN report on the dire economic situation in Venezuela caused, at least in part, by U.S. sanctions.
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Trailblazing former Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis dies at 68
February 19, 2021She was a trailblazer in the teachers-community combination. Lewis wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power. The union leader mobilized the city to support kids, adding massive parent backing to her union’s 35,000-plus members.
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Communist Alphaeus Hunton drew together anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial struggles
February 19, 2021From the 1945 People's World archives comes this selection from W. Alphaeus Hunton.
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