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Survivor’s story highlights horror of atomic weapons

August 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

It was early in the morning and 7-year-old second-grader Michiko Kodama was learning her lessons with her classmates when the life she knew came suddenly to an end.

New Year’s Eve reminiscing with lifelong communist Mary Gosman Scarborough

August 6, 2019 By Susan Gosman

Some of us were ready to die for our principles—some of us did. It is not so long ago. Our tree is standing now with fallen branches.

Indigenous youth fight to replace Columbus Day in Chicago

August 2, 2019 By Michelle Zacarias

20-year-old Anthony Tamez-Pochel wants to educate the public on the widespread indigenous genocide enacted by colonizers like Columbus.

Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum

August 2, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.

Cuba celebrates the rebellion that triggered a revolution

July 26, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

At his trial, a young lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro said: "History will absolve me!"