According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world are signing up to fight on behalf of Ukraine. But comparisons to the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades are misguided.
A statue of the author, Solomon T. Plaatje, in Kimberley, South Africa.
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According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.
A woman claps above a banner reading “everything will be all right,” in Rome. This phrase has appeared on social media and at balconies and windows across Italy as the country faces coronavirus.
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