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Article from 1997 by Robin D. G. Kelley on discussions around identity politics and class struggle. While written twenty years ago it remains relevant to current discussions on the same topic.

OCHO RIOS, St Ann — The US Government will have to wait until a man, whom they say ...

The US fugitive who went missing after disembarking the Carnival Sunrise cruise ship in Ocho Rio, St Ann, weeks ago was fined $8,000 for breaches of the Immigration Act. Garfield Sewell, a 20-year-old resident of Atlanta, Georgia in the United Sta

The Occlusion of Political Economy Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By: Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson is by trade a journalist and a storyteller. In her previous book, which garnered scores of awards, she traced the Great Migration of Blacks escaping the yoke of oppression in the South to less perilous, though still fraught, lives in Northern cities. She narrates this history through the lives of three people, in over 600 pages, perhaps a record for what Clifford Geertz coined “thick...

PUNXSUTAWNEY — The Mahoning Valley VFW Post 2076 held a flagpole dedication ceremony on Sunday in honor of Thomas R. Johnston, a Navy veteran and member of the post. The dedication ceremony was held on what would have been Johnston’s 75th birthday, Dec. 13. Post Commander Bob Lott gave a speech at the ceremony honoring Johnston, and thanking those who made the project possible. Johnston died about two years ago, and in his obituary, his wife Helen included that memorial donations be m...