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Remembering Don Newcombe and the fight against Jim Crow baseball
February 22, 2019In memory of Don Newcombe, People’s World’s reprints a feature story on him and Roy Campanella from a 1946 edition of the Daily Worker.
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Former Dodgers great Don Newcombe dies at 92
February 20, 2019"Don Newcombe’s presence and life established him as a role model for Major Leaguers across the country."
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 may have to be passed again
February 19, 2019The Voting Rights Act produced an enormous change for both African-Americans and U.S. politics.
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As it happened: The promise—and betrayal—of Iran’s 1979 revolution
February 11, 2019Excerpts from the People's World archives of the Iranian Revolution as it happened.
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How did the Iranian Revolution go so far off the rails?
February 11, 2019Exclusive People’s World interview with a leader of the Tudeh Party, a driving force in that country’s progressive, secular, and left movements
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