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Switzerland’s Best Foreign Film Oscar submission goes full circle
February 12, 2015Swiss co-writer/director Stefan Haupt's The Circle (Der Kreis) is a strong fact-based drama about the struggle for gay rights in Switzerland.
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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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“Dancer in the Revolution”: Memoir of Stretch Johnson, Harlem communist
February 12, 2015History is a curious thing, full of drama, intrigue, plot twists, misadventures. Howard "Stretch" Johnson's memoir is similarly curious.
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GOP drafting bill to let asbestos manufacturers off the hook
February 12, 2015"Had these companies shared the information they knew about the dangers of asbestos, countless lives would have been saved."
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Longshore union calls employer port shutdown “bad for U.S. economy”
February 12, 2015The union has repeatedly emphasized it is committed to reaching a new agreement as quickly as possible, and says only a few issues remain to be negotiated.
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