MOTD: May 12, 2023
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Still waiting to reserve your tickets for "The Rosenberg Case 70 Years Later: Fighting Fascism Then and Now"? Our due date for Sponsor level tickets is fast approaching on June 1st.
MOTD: May 09, 2023
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We are very excited to share that longtime activist and RFC Advisory Board member Angela Y. Davis and activist, educator, event producer, writer and spiritual guide Russell Shoatz III will be reading… Read More
MOTD: May 02, 2023
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Thank you to Renée Graham of the Boston Globe for this thoughtful tribute to the late, great Harry Belafonte. We loved this sentiment and are honored for our organization to be counted among the… Read More
MOTD: Apr 28, 2023
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Earlier this month on April 20th marked the anniversary of Billie Holiday recording "Strange Fruit" in 1939. The song was originally written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish activist, poet, and high school… Read More
MOTD: Apr 26, 2023
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Earlier this month marked Paul Robeson's 125th birthday. Robeson was a fierce civil rights and antifascist activist, musician and a supporter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (he even participated in a… Read More
MOTD: Apr 15, 2023
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Today's Rosenberg Mention of the Day comes from Washington, D.C. where the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will present a free, one-night-only reading of "Angels in America" on… Read More
MOTD: Apr 13, 2023
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We invite you to tune in virtually this June as Angela Y. Davis, Martín Espada & others join the RFC in marking 70 years since the Rosenbergs' executions.
MOTD: Apr 07, 2023
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Happy birthday to activist artist Billie Holiday, born #OnThisDay in 1915. She is perhaps best known for her performances of Abel Meeropol's powerful anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit."
MOTD: Mar 21, 2023
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Today's Strange Fruit Mention of the Day comes to us from Torri Williams, a Coalition Leader of the Marion Community Remembrance Project. The city of Marion in Indiana served as the inspiration for… Read More
MOTD: Mar 09, 2023
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The RFC's spring newsletter is here! This issue is especially packed with news and updates as June 19th will mark 70 years since the Rosenbergs' executions. The RFC will be commemorating the… Read More
MOTD: Mar 02, 2023
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Book Riot issued a list of 8 contemporary Jewish fiction books, and among them is "Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems," a collection written for teenaged readers by Barbara Krasner. (You… Read More
MOTD: Feb 23, 2023
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On this day, February 23, 1868, civil rights activist, author and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois was born.
Du Bois was a public supporter of the effort to save Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He spoke at the "… Read More
MOTD: Feb 21, 2023
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Happy birthday to activist artist, feminist and civil rights icon Nina Simone, who would have turned 90 today.
In 1965 Simone recorded her own harrowing rendition of "Strange Fruit," the powerful… Read More
MOTD: Feb 14, 2023
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On this day (February 14, 1910) Abel Meeropol was born. He was a teacher and a poet, most famous for writing the anti-lynching poem, "Bitter Fruit," which he would later adapt to music and retitle as… Read More
MOTD: Feb 11, 2023
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On this day, we mark 70 years since President Eisenhower denied Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's first bid for executive clemency on Feb 11th, 1953. It was one of the first decisions Eisenhower faced in… Read More
MOTD: Feb 03, 2023
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Today's Strange Fruit Mention of the Day comes all the way from Spain, where our former Granting Coordinator Tori Montemurro now lives and works. She reached out to share an interesting connection to… Read More
MOTD: Jan 24, 2023
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This Thurs. Jan 26th, 2023 at 12pm (Central), the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum will host a hybrid event, "President Eisenhower’s Decision Concerning the Execution of Julius and Ethel… Read More
MOTD: Jan 20, 2023
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Rosenberg Mention of the Day: As Meryl Streep joins the cast of the "Only Murders in the Building" tv series, this article reminds readers that she also once played Ethel Rosenberg in "Angels in… Read More
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