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125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his gravestone: “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”

Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure

The prediction that these divisions could undermine the Israeli state from within seems premature at this stage. But there is no doubt that they have exposed serious cracks in the Zionist edifice – ones that may well widen over the coming years.

"While we are looking to the stars, we should not readily sacrifice communities, habitat, and species," said a Center for Biological Diversity senior attorney.

While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.

A number of moderate Democrats have remained silent on whether they support Julie Su’s nomination for labor secretary.

During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made less than their white counterparts. So they went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them on the picket line.

Although May ’68 itself failed to deliver a revolution, the lessons of the era – alliance-building by including liberation struggles outside of socialism – shaped my later time in power.

The Court ruled that the manufacturer can keep classifying the product as a spray, not a butter or margarine — and telling consumers that each serving is free of calories and fats.

The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.