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Racist monuments fall: Watery end for slave trader statue in UK

June 9, 2020 By Pan Pylas

The Colston statue wasn’t the only historic sculpture to have been targeted by protesters.

Ending hunger and homelessness cheaper than maintaining our Maginot Line

May 26, 2020 By Forbes West

In the end, what are we really paying for?

Little Steel Strike: Remembering the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre

May 22, 2020 By Fred Gaboury

By day’s end, an army of gun-toting, stick wielding Chicago cops had shot ten dead, leaving hundreds of others beaten and gassed.

U.S. Postal Service honors Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Anne Spencer, poet

May 21, 2020 By Special to People’s World

On May 21, the U.S. Postal Service is issuing a sheet of forever stamps honoring four of the lesser-known figures of the famous Harlem Renaissance.

Will COVID-19 become a modern-day Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and spark reform?

May 20, 2020 By David Unger

The story of Triangle is one of worker power and union struggles, of organizing and movements that made a tragedy a catalyst, not just a headline. Can it happen again?