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August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” is set in…
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The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the…
The playwright Eugene OāNeill said that one of the few events worth celebrating in American history took place on June 25, 1876,…
The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in…
The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis, and its effects on Western media institutions are increasingly concerning to…
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I have fought my entire life not to believe I am nothing. Not to believe I am stupid. To fight to believe I have a right to be here
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