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Go see Duke Ellington’s sweet, tangy “Queenie Pie”
February 14, 2014Ellington was one of the most versatile figures in music of the 20th century, but most people do not know that from the 1930s on, Ellington worked intermittently, all the way up to his death in...
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Today in black history: Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass born
February 14, 2014He became a leader of the abolitionist movement after escaping slavery in 1838, and went on to become an excellent lecturer and writer.
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Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans
February 13, 2014It is probably little known what the great freedom fighter had to say about the horrific mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S.
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Tennessee paper pushes Koch-connected anti-union message ahead of UAW vote
February 13, 2014A misleading op-ed co-written by a Koch and ALEC ally, falsely claimed creating a union in a local Volkswagen plant would negatively impact the state economy and plant relations.
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Weathering the floods in England
February 13, 2014At long last the army has arrived on the Somerset Levels (a coastal area in South West England) where floodwaters have been disrupting normal life since just after Christmas.
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