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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first