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“Opposing Jim Crow”: How African Americans helped shape Soviet antiracism
January 7, 2014"Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937" critically investigates what she calls "Soviet antiracism."
Read more“Philomena:” heartbreak, fortitude, and search for closure
January 7, 2014It's something of a "buddy movie," one of many where two people with great dissimilarities are teamed together in some common objective over which they have no agreement.
Read moreCuba – 55 years of ideas and truth
January 6, 2014On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of their revolution's victory.
Read moreToday in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born
January 6, 2014On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
Read moreRichard Hart, Jamaican Marxist and historian, dies
January 6, 2014Richard Hart, a towering figure of the Jamaican and Caribbean left, died in Bristol, England, on Dec. 21, 2013, at 96 years of age.
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