MOTD: Dec 20, 2024
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Breaking: Just Security Op-Ed by Rosenberg sons Robert and Michael Meeropol calls on President Biden to set the record straight on their mother, Ethel.
MOTD: Nov 27, 2024
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Join us on Dec 7th at 10:30am (eastern) for a virtual update on the campaign to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg! World Fellowship Center hosts RFC Founder, Robert Meeropol, and Executive Director, Jennifer... Read More
MOTD: Nov 26, 2024
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Love this new piece from author and Professor of History, Lori Clune. A previously secret memo declassified in Aug 2024 revealed a stunning admission by a top U.S. codebreaker three years before... Read More
MOTD: Nov 20, 2024
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When Ethel Rosenberg was executed in 1953, her sons were just 6 and 10 years old. In the nearly three years before then, she was an imprisoned mother painfully separated from her family. As a loving... Read More
MOTD: Oct 08, 2024
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Last week, RFC Founder Robert Meeropol spoke with RFC Board member Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg about the newly declassified NSA memo about his mother, Ethel Rosenberg, and the effort to exonerate... Read More
MOTD: Sep 28, 2024
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Today is Ethel Rosenberg's birthday. The labor activist, loving wife and mother was charged and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage alongside her husband, Julius, during the height of the... Read More
MOTD: Sep 27, 2024
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Thanks to the Daily Hampshire Gazette for the front page feature this week on the Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg campaign! https://www.gazettenet.com/Ethel-Rosenberg-petition-57080365
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MOTD: Sep 20, 2024
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MassLive reports: a newly declassified NSA memo reveals the US government knew that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy long before she was convicted and executed.
MOTD: Sep 10, 2024
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An AP News article reports on a recent major update in the Rosenberg Case (the release of a recently declassified NSA memo that provides powerful evidence that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy).... Read More
MOTD: Aug 02, 2024
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Happy birthday to James Baldwin, the extraordinary Black queer author, poet and civil rights activist, whose life and legacy we celebrate today.
MOTD: Jul 17, 2024
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Today marks 65 years since the death of Billie Holiday, whose famous rendition of "Strange Fruit" was named Time Magazine's "song of the 20th century". Written by Abel Meeropol, father of RFC Founder... Read More
MOTD: Jun 26, 2024
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Today's Rosenberg Mention of the Day comes from Verdict via a fascinating essay examining the parallels between Judge Irving Kaufman's handling of the 1951 Rosenberg trial and Judge Aileen Cannon's... Read More
MOTD: May 29, 2024
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Today's Strange Fruit Mention of the Day via Harlem World Magazine tells the origin story of the protest song, "Strange Fruit." It begins with Abel Meeropol's penning of the original poem, "Bitter... Read More
MOTD: May 24, 2024
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Today's Rosenberg Mention of the Day comes from TIME's review of "The Apprentice," a feature film which premiered at the Cannes film festival earlier this week.
MOTD: Apr 23, 2024
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Last weekend marked the 85th anniversary of Billie's Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit," a protest song against the lynching of Black Americans, written by Abel Meeropol (father of RFC Founder,... Read More
MOTD: Apr 18, 2024
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Today's Rosenberg Mention of the Day includes a short summary on Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who issued a stay of execution in the Rosenberg Case. He was confirmed 85 years ago this... Read More
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