Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Increasingly, doubts arise as to whether democracy exists in the United States, with eminent voices saying that such a concept is null and void. Adding that that the growing economic…
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President Obama addressed thousands who gathered on the Washington Mall on Wednesday (Aug. 28) to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and MLK's 'I have a dream' speech.
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An excellent blog post in Huffington Post. It is titled “The Faces of Cuba You Have to See.” The pictures are a beautiful piece of photojournalism.
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Harry Belafonte recalls Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech which celebrates its 50th anniversary on August 28th giving the civil rights movement an unstoppable momentum. The…
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Ted Cruz is a snake — pure and simple, says the writer. He’ll slither and coil himself around any idea or talking point he can if he thinks it will benefit his political career.
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On 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King made his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, giving the civil rights movement an unstoppable momentum. It is recognized as one of the great speeches of…
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Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention. On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the…
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Video taken at FIU, in the "Rafael Diaz-Balart" Auditorium of that institution’s Law School, the day that the Industriales baseball team was to play its first game at FIU Stadium.
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President Obama will speak to the nation on Wednesday from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther…
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The U.S. Congress is presently in its annual August recess. Before it recessed, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment that would dramatically curtail legal U.S. Cuba…
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