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Ghana’s president says U.S. and European wealth built on slavery, calls for reparations
September 22, 2023Speaking at the United Nations, Nana Akufo-Addo says it’s time to acknowledge the West was built thanks to the unpaid labor and horrors of African slavery.
Read moreThe ‘Sit-Down Strike’ that brought General Motors to its knees: Three workers remember
September 22, 2023Interviews with three labor heroes who participated in the historic 1936-37 strike that unionized the auto industry.
Read moreOver 200 bones unearthed and withheld from descendants of a historic Black cemetery
September 21, 2023Real estate developer says the remains are all non-human, but a local coalition wants a second opinion.
Read more‘The Right Is Ours!’ musicalizes the early suffrage movement in America
September 21, 2023A world premiere engagement of The Right is Ours!, a new musical about two women who were founders of the women’s suffrage movement.
Read more‘Peace for all those alive’: Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death
September 18, 2023The inherent connection between nature, history, and working people is the paramount theme of Neruda’s poetry.
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