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Conversation: How Black freedom struggle shapes America

February 11, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Join People's World in celebrating African American History Month with a national teleconference presentation by Prof. Jamie Wilson.

Better know an owner: Clippers’ outrageous Donald Sterling

February 11, 2013 By Neil Parthun

It is incredibly ugly that owners such as Donald Sterling can latch themselves onto the games we enjoy and wreak so much social havoc.

Virginia GOP tries to dilute African-American vote

January 28, 2013 By Art Cook

Senate Republicans took advantage of the absence of Democrat Henry Marsh, a civil rights hero who was attending the ceremony, to pass a huge mid-decade redistricting bill.

Today in Labor History: Paul Robeson dies

January 23, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On January 23, 1976, noted singer and actor Paul Robeson died in Philadelphia. Robeson was also a legendary civil rights and peace leader and athlete.

Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history

January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.