Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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A lynching in New Orleans
February 18, 2015How recent these events! How deeply seared in living human memory!
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Today in African American history: An important birthday
February 12, 2015What you may not realize is that the founding of the NAACP took place, significantly on Abraham Lincoln's centennial birthdate, in 1909.
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Radical dude: Figaro unbound
February 12, 2015L.A. Opera has launched "a city-wide celebration of the revolutionary spirit of Beaumarchais' "Figaro."
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Today in people’s history: Nelson Mandela released from prison
February 11, 2015Today marks exactly 25 years since the day in 1990 when anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison to become a free man in South Africa.
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Today in labor history: “What’s My Line?” debuts
February 2, 2015Sixty-five years ago, at 8 pm Eastern time on February 2, 1950, the game show What's My Line? debuted on CBS-TV.
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Historic environmental victory for L.A.’s Century City Center
January 28, 2015After years of refuting thoroughly debunked arguments against it, the Century City Center has been approved.
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On right turns
January 26, 2015Have you ever wondered how it came about that in most places a right turn on a red light is now the law of the land? Here's how it happened.
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To honor of King they marched for lives in Los Angeles
January 20, 2015Over 3000 marchers and tens of thousands of observers lined up along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in solidarity with the theme Black Lives Matter.
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