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Movie Studios Are Abandoning Russia, A Far Cry From How They Handled Nazi Germany

During World War II, movie studios went to pains not to alienate the Nazis.

by David Welky, Noel Murray via Made By History on March 8, 2022

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Black men living in a shanty during the Pullman Car strike.

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on December 6, 2025

National civil rights leaders (L-R) John Lewis, Whitney Young Jr, A. Philip Randolph, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins pose behind a banquet table at the Hotel Roosevelt as they meet to formulate plans for the March on Washington and to bring about the passage of civil rights legislation, on July 2, 1963 in New York City. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

The Emancipatory Past and Future of Black Politics

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.

by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on January 27, 2020

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