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Honoring Paul Robeson: A hero for all time.
March 28, 2008April 9, 2008 will mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, a scholar, athlete, singer, actor and fighter for freedom, peace and social justice for all. The Bay Area Paul Robeson Centennial Committee...
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Celebrating a gold mine of Paul Robeson films
March 28, 2008Truly a gold mine for film students, film history and African American history, the Criterion Collection makes classic films available on the consumer market, in contemporary formats. In 2007, they released a four-DVD set containing highlights...
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Cuba freeze thawing
March 28, 2008Do 50 years of U.S. intransigence toward Cuba mean we are stuck in a political ice age on the issue, immune from change, or is that era already ending? President George Bush seems blind to trickles...
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Paying for biofuels in your supermarket
March 28, 2008On March 12, representatives of about 80 of America’s largest baking companies, representing more than 85 percent of our baking industry, marched in Washington to protest the dangerously low supplies of wheat, rye and other grains....
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The speech that moved the nation
March 28, 2008Barack Obama made a magnificent contribution to the fight against racism and for unity in his March 18 speech on race. He gave the speech after a week of racist, McCarthy-like hysteria over out-of-context snippets from...
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