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Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention
March 10, 2021PBS program spotlights long-lost case of racist police violence.
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Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Toward ‘a social order worthy of the human race’
March 3, 2021Remembering Red Rosa on her 150th birthday.
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William Z. Foster—Pioneer fighter for Black equality in organized labor
February 25, 2021At a time when trade unions ignored the issues of Black workers and kept them out of organized labor, William Z. Foster fought to change the whole movement.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
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