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Recy Taylor’s legacy and the power of the press
January 12, 2018Oprah reminded us of the case of Recy Taylor. It was in the pages of the Daily Worker that the first #MeToo movement was forged in 1944.
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“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: Portrait in black and red
January 11, 2018Director Tracy Heather Strain’s new documentary is a portrait of a woman ahead of her time.
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Coal executive’s “action plan” finds success under Trump
January 11, 2018In the early days of the Trump administration, Robert “Bob” Murray, the head of one of America’s largest coal companies, sent a four-page “action plan” to the White House calling for rollbacks of Obama-era environmental and...
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Criminal ex-sheriff, Joe Arpaio, wants Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat
January 11, 2018There is no doubt that Arpaio, with a track record of human rights violations, will fulfill the campaign promises he is making.
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Historians find parallels between Hitler’s Nazis and today’s “alt-right”
January 11, 2018A panel of historians says there are more parallels than people realize between the U.S. alt-right and the real Nazis—the ones led by Hitler from the 1920s to 1945.
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