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Gentleman Jack depicts a bold, groundbreaking 19th-century lesbian. But its palatable tone falsely suggests that few obstacles were in her way.

Peter Neil Carroll’s “Sanctuary” honors the work of Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental volunteer group of lifeguards who rescue refugees at sea.

The highly regarded scholar's latest work tackles the deep roots of white nationalism as it emerged from conflicts surrounding Reconstruction and the failure of post-Civil War governments to stamp down racism and secure genuine emancipation.

The author of this book, Wolfgang Kaleck, is founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. He is also Edward Snowden's lawyer.

The film recounts the 1819 bloody massacre that left 15 peaceful working-class voting-rights demonstrators dead and hundreds more injured (coined "Peterloo" by journalists who reported the atrocity in contemporary papers as a play on Waterloo.

Although matzo balls are not strictly a Passover food, they are almost always on the menu of Passover seders.

Spies, politics and murder in Channel 4’s poised new 1945-set espionage thriller.

New play, about Reconstruction. This was really a turning point in US history when America almost did the right thing. The South was writing new state constitutions and African Americans were getting elected to local and national offices.

In an era of endless war and more war, poet Eve Sutton contrasts a world of peace and safety.

Two books look to the histories of the Communist International and the Tricontinental movement to evaluate how organizing around color and region can effect global struggles against oppression and grow in tandem with multiracial workers’ movements.