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Politically-charged rap finally gets its due with Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer
April 19, 2018Hip hop has battled against public disapproval and respectability politics for decades, but Lamar's Pulitzer signals a change.
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Arizona teachers ready to strike
April 19, 2018With a poor offer on the table that seeks to divide education workers, Arizona teachers are ready to hit the picket line.
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Cuba’s Revolution: A new generation takes the lead
April 19, 2018Cuba enters the post-Castro era, with 57-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel slated to become the country's next president.
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Famed war reporter’s visit to Syria: Gas attack evidence “flimsy”
April 18, 2018British journalist Robert Fisk visited Douma, site of the alleged chemical attack, and found little evidence showing it actually happened.
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Gay rights in the Communist press: Recollections of a seminal article
April 18, 2018People's World writer Eric Gordon remembers when "the winds of perestroika" finally blew in 1990 and he was invited to write the first article on gay rights to appear in the U.S. Communist press.
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