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Editor-at-Large, the Forward; Host/Producer, Wisconsin Public Radio; Contributing Editor, American City Business Journals; Contributing reporter, GBH.

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Before Pride, Superior’s Main Club offered a place to belong for area’s LGBTQ+ residents

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By Robin Washington Verified
| Wisconsin Public Radio Verified
Today is the last day of Pride Month, and when it comes to marking it in the Greater Twin Ports, Superior deserves special recognition. It’s the home of the Main Club on Tower Avenue, the area’s first and longest-standing LGBTQ+ bar, which since its founding in 1983 has played a major role in the region’s gay and lesbian rights movement. That story is chronicled in “Remember the Main” by Meg Gorzycki, one of its former bar workers who’s now a retired San Francisco State University professor.
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In Miami, rekindling the Black-Jewish alliance that Clarence Jones insisted never died

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By Robin Washington Verified
| Forward Verified
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief. And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over.
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From a living room to 24/7 sit-ins: how Chicago’s Civil Rights strategies took shape

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By Robin Washington Verified
| The TRiiBE Verified
By Published on May 1, 2026 The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and fellow Civil Rights leaders including the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Marion Barry, Roy Wilkins, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and A. Phillip Randolph walk down a Chicago street during the 1960 Republican National Convention. Local movement leaders, who staged protests at the convention, would persuade King to return to the city to lead the Chicago Freedom Movement four years later.
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