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How Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
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The Lost State of Sequoyah: The Five Tribes’ fight against Oklahoma statehood
August 24, 2020The politics of Oklahoma statehood was a traumatic and bitter pill for all the citizens of the Indigenous republics, which brought to fruition the Sequoyah Statehood Convention Movement.
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‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
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Hillary Clinton tells voters: Don’t let Trump steal the election, again
August 20, 2020The woman who beat Donald Trump says he has to be defeated again, by an even bigger margin this time.
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Harris targets Trump the predator, denounces structural racism
August 20, 2020Harris, the first Black woman VP nominee and first South Asian descendant on a major party ticket, combined personal history and praise of the women whose shoulders she stands on—suffrage crusaders and her immigrant mother—with her...
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