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This week in history: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

April 17, 2018 By Special to People’s World

For four weeks, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.

Baseball’s Larry Doby: #2 but first-class all the way home

April 17, 2018 By Mickey Gallagher

Ask even the most casual baseball fan who the first African American to play in the major leagues was and they'll say "Jackie Robinson." Ask them who the second was and you'll probably get a blank...

Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947

April 16, 2018 By Lester Rodney

"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...

‘Considering Matthew Shepard’: Remembrance, honor, and gratitude in a new choral masterpiece

April 16, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

One of the most shocking acts of anti-gay violence ever recorded in American history moved the nation to action.

Nashville Indigenous community commemorates Dragging Canoe Day; honors Cherokee leader

April 11, 2018 By Albert Bender

“To see the future, one needs only to look at the past.”