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March 23, 2023

Tidbits – Mar. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; He Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

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Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Light Communication; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

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January 30, 2023

Picket Crosses Worker Lines

Hanna Raskin The Food Section

The newly formed Union of Southern Service Workers holds its first strike.

December 29, 2022

One Place the ‘Red Wave’ Arrived in 2022: Southern Legislatures

Chris Kromm Facing South

Republicans may not have enjoyed big victories like many expected in the 2022 midterm elections, but the predicted "red wave" did materialize in at least one critical arena: Southern state legislatures.

December 8, 2022

Tidbits – Dec. 8, 2022 – Reader Comments: Georgia Victory, Electoral Politics, Electoral Strategy; Rail Workers; Doctors and Unions; After Dobbs; Ending the ‘American War’: Promises, Realities, Impact of U.S. Peace Movement; Cartoons, More …

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Reader Comments: Georgia Victory, Electoral Politics, Electoral Strategy; Rail Workers; Doctors and Unions; After Dobbs; Ending the 'American War': Promises, Realities and Impact of the U.S. Peace Movement; Cartoons, more ....

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September 8, 2022

‘Confederates Were Traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, Race and American History

Martin Pengelly The Guardian

The discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth.

June 25, 2022

Progressives in Southern Cities Vow To Protect Abortion Access

Elisha Brown Facing South

Some local officials in the region are taking steps to do what they can to protect people's ability to end unwanted pregnancies.

June 16, 2022

Civil Rights Activists Fought for America’s Democracy. They Should Be Honored As Veterans

David Dennis Jr. New York Times

History books have called my father an activist, a community organizer, a freedom fighter, among other things. But they don’t use a phrase that my dad has used to describe himself: a war general.

May 30, 2022

One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans

Dave Roos History

At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers. A battered U.S. was faced with the task of burying and honoring the 600,000 to 800,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who had died.

May 19, 2022

Tidbits – May 19, 2022 – Reader Comments: Buffalo Murders; Replacement Theory; Abortion; Racial Wealth Gap; Left-Wing Populism; Ukraine; Afghanistan; South; Abortion in the 70s – The Janes; Housing Failure; More …

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Reader Comments: Buffalo Murders; Replacement Theory; Abortion; Racial Wealth Gap; Left-wing Populism; Ukraine; Afghanistan; South; Abortion in the 70s - The Janes; Housing Failure; Announcements; more ....

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February 24, 2022

Grief Over Time - Ten Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin

Derecka Purnell New York Magazine

Sybrina Fulton, lost her son Trayvon Martin ten years ago this month, found her painful place in American history. She feels honored when supporters compare her to Till-Mobley. “She’s an icon. She was the example of, you know, a strong Black woman,”

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