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No Pride in police—Why cops need to stay away from queer events

June 21, 2018 By Michelle Zacarias

Remembering the trans sex workers and drag queens who stood up to police at Stonewall and launched the modern gay rights movement.

Thanks, MLBPA and Marvin Miller: 50 years since first pro sports union contract

June 13, 2018 By Al Neal

As Marvin Miller told players, "A union is not a social club. A union is a restraint on what an employer can otherwise do." Just as true today as in 1965.

Paul Robeson remembered in Canada with “Row R”

June 13, 2018 By Norman Richmond

Robeson said in the mid-50s, “The hand of brotherhood…yes, I found that hand in Canada."

This week in history: Hate crime laws are ruled constitutional

June 11, 2018 By Special to People’s World

In 1993, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that hate crime laws are not “constitutionally and morally unsound.”

Edward E. Sadlowski, 79; a champion of labor

June 11, 2018 By Ed Sadlowski, Jr.

“Oilcan” passed away today June 10, after a hard struggle with Lewy body dementia.