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AFI Fest features the reel and the real Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin
November 23, 2021I love and highly recommend The Real Charlie Chaplin, which provides a penetrating portrait of one of the geniuses who coinvented and shaped the silver screen.
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New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition
November 9, 2021People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.
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Major court victory against desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery
October 26, 2021The cemetery is among the largest mass graves in the United States, but real estate developers have been eyeing the site for years.
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Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city
October 25, 2021October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...
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Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative
October 25, 2021International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long...
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