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Tens of thousands mark Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march

March 9, 2015 By Combined Sources

America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists.

Today in women’s history: Barbie is born

March 9, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Barbie became the figurehead of an extensive and highly lucrative brand of Mattel dolls and accessories.

Bell, East Harlem historian, featured at Vito Marcantonio Forum

March 6, 2015 By Gabe Falsetta

The VMF is a historical, cultural, and educational organization that brings together people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Today in women’s history: Rosa Luxemburg born in 1871

March 5, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Rosa Luxemburg, born on March 5, 1871, in Zamość, Poland, was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent.

The stakes are high in third season of “The Americans”

March 4, 2015 By Carole Avalon

In the latest episode we learn about the deadly craft of spying as it plays out in these damaged souls' lives. Targets, assets, friends, lovers, rivals.