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Hatuey: 500th Anniversary of a Freedom Fighter

Everyone knows the name of Christopher Columbus, but how many of us can name a…

With the release of the Universal Pictures film, The Lorax, based on Dr. Seuss’s classic…

While women’s history should be taught all year, we can use this month to examine…

What a timely and important film this is. We meet the inspiring educators associated with…

In June of 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act. The …

With extreme weather all over the United States and in the news, yet with little…

The People Speak, the feature documentary inspired by A People’s History of the United …

by Bill Bigelow
When you think about Superstorm Sandy, melting ice caps, wildfires in Australia,…

Zinn did not merely record history, he made it: as a professor at Spelman College…

By Bill Fletcher Jr.
The day went down in history as a powerful show of…