Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women

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Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike to Limit AI is for You and Me - We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard as Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration, the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; War on Women - Russia Says Give Birth Early;

This Week in People’s History, June 6 . . .

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Civil rights activist James Meredith wincing in pain just after he was wounded by a sniper Bullets don't stop March Against Fear. Strikers' play fills Madison Square Garden. Court rules for lunch-counter sit-in. Cesar Chavez gets started. CIA lawbreaking whitewashed. Environmental racism costs Shell Oil. Paul Robeson defies witch-hunters.

Tidbits – May 11, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -an Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; More

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Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more

Friday Nite Videos | 5-5-2023: Belafonte in Five

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Harry Belafonte is synonymous with getting people across the world up, singing and dancing and celebrating life. Little do we appreciate how great a role he played in getting us up and acting on the stage of history.

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Remembering Paul Robeson: ‘I Had No Alternative’

Paul Von Blom The Progressive
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.”

Friday Nite Videos | April 21, 2023

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AOC & Jordan Klepper on Trump, Clarence Thomas & Ending Violence. Here's Why Writers Are Ready to Shut Hollywood Down. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Movie. Paul Robeson Testifying Before HUAC. Farmworkers | John Oliver.

Paul Robeson Testifying Before HUAC

James Earl Jones re-enacts Paul Robeson's testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (in memory of Robeson's 125th birthday)

Tidbits – Feb. 16, 2023 – Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital, Necessary; History Seeing ‘Socialism’ Under Every Bed; Ukraine War; Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration; More…

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Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital, Necessary; History of Seeing 'Socialism' Under Every Bed; Ukraine War; Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration; Cartoons; lots of Announcements;
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