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In 1940s North Carolina, a Communist-led union of tobacco workers fought to bring democracy to the Jim Crow South.

Experts suspect climate change is behind this and other shifts in precipitation patterns. But knowing what’s causing an increase in precipitation and knowing what to do about it are two different issues.

While the term divides us now, its history dates back to a time when mineworkers battled big coal – similar to teachers standing up for funding.

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Bill's lifelong lesson for us: Let us never forget. The Panthers were an inspiration for the country’s School Breakfast Program and they fought for sickle cell screening.

Slavery did not die because it was unproductive or unprofitable, as some earlier historians have argued. Slavery was not some feudal remnant on the way to extinction.

In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack.

We’ve identified people in our history who look and behave strikingly like the Koch brothers and their associates—specifically a small group that is mega-wealthy, super- privileged, highly self aware, morally self-confident, ideologically driven and deeply engaged in long-term efforts to seize the levers of government and upend American democracy. By this historian’s reckoning, it is, in general, the Old South’s slave owning aristocracy.

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