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Robert Fitch
Remembering Robert Fitch (Lived History)

Fitch was a brilliant and prolific radical journalist and troublemaker.

Doug Henwood
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Manny Fried
Remembering Manny Fried (Lived History)

Fried was a guiding presence to Buffalo-area actors, writers and social activists.

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Suze Rotolo
Remembering Suze Rotolo (Lived History)

Best known for a photograph of her and Bob Dylan that became the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Rotolo devoted her life to the progressive causes which had engaged her since well before she met the folk singer.

Peter Rothberg
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Mourning Gabe Zimmerman (Lived History, US Politics, Religion, Peace Activism)

Remembering the progressive aide to Gabrielle Giffords who died in the attack in Tucson, Arizona.

Josh Nathan-Kazis
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Remembering Dagmar Wilson (Lived History, Anti-Nuclear Activism)

Dagmar Wilson was one of those responsible for what Alice Munro calls the “great switch in women’s lives.”

Cora Weiss
Remembering Milton Rogovin (Lived History, Society)

Class was not merely Milton’s subject, it was the optic through which he saw the world, something that distinguished his work from what the culture had expected of social documentary photography since the 1930s.

JoAnn Wypijewski
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Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds (Environmental Issues, Lived History, Environmental Activism)

She has been to the mountaintop—and we must fight harder to save it.

Jeff Biggers
Remembering Jean Benson Wilkinson: 1914 to 2010 (Lived History, Activism)

A tribute to a longtime defender of civil liberties and a beloved teacher.

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Slide Show: Remembering Those We Lost in 2010 (Lived History)
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Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson on Progressive Politics in the Obama Era (Lived History, Social Justice, Politics)

If you're disappointed with Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson has a reminder for you: American presidents haven't done many great things without a mass movement pushing them every step of the way.

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Blogs

Michael Jackson: Freak Like Me
The Notion

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is dead of a heart attack at the age of 50. Without his extravagant eccentricities and ambiguous, obsessive relationships to race, gender, mortality and childhood (and children)—indeed without the conspicuously tenuous link he had to the category of the human itself—Michael Jackson would have been a B-list has-been.

June 25, 2009
On Elizabeth Edwards
The Notion

Elizabeth was smart, tough and unafraid of political engagement. Hers was a story that resonated with women across partisan differences.

May 10, 2009
Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006
The Notion

"Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible," wrote Reverend William Sloane Coffin in his last book, Credo. Bill Coffin, as his friends knew him, was one of our greatest and most eloquent prophetic voices.

April 13, 2006
A Subversive Southerner Passes
The Notion

On Monday, March 6, when Anne Braden died, the South lost one of its most dedicated, courageous and feisty fighters for racial justice, civil liberties and economic rights.

I met Anne Braden in the early 1980s when I worked for ABC's "Closeup" unit, one of the last serious documentary divisions at a news network. Our crew spent a week in Louisville, Kentucky, interviewing Anne--and those who had supported, shunned and persecuted her in the 1950s--for The American Inquisition, an hour-long documentary about the impact of the McCarthy era on our nation's politics and society. (It aired in 1983.)

I remember trying to get Anne Braden to tell us about how she came to her radical politics. Some of it was her father, she said. He had been, in Anne's telling--a "committed racist" in a segregationist family. But much of it, as her unusually revealing memoirs The Wall Between explained, came from her work as a newspaper reporter, covering the Birmingham courthouse. That, she told us, "made a radical out of me." As her biographer, Catherine Fosl remembers, Anne explained that seeing "two different systems of justice," where violence against blacks was ignored and violence by blacks was harshly punished, moved her to live a life of radicalism and agitation.

March 12, 2006