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H. Rap Brown

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On November 23, 2025
The historiography of the Black Panthers at first was very critical of them. This was largely written by middle class people who valorized the mainline civil rights movement and thought the Panthers ruined it all. That was too simplistic. That was followed by a generation...
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Leo Gerard, RIP

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On September 29, 2025
The long-time president of the United Steelworkers of America has died. What made Gerard a special union leader was his ability to shift his union away from the declining steel industry and into all sorts of other workplaces in order to keep the USW alive....
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Joseph McNeil, RIP

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On September 6, 2025
We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three other freshmen from a historically Black college held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter...

Flaco Jimenez, RIP

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On August 1, 2025

We have lost one of the greatest titans of American music: The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner RIP

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On July 21, 2025
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday. He was 54. Warner drowned while swimming at a beach on the Caribbean coast of...
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