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Dorothy Height, godmother of civil rights movement
April 23, 2010Dorothy Height is remembered as a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose life's work and activism stretched from the New Deal through the 2008 election of President Obama.
Read moreDetroit ministers prepare for U.S. Social Forum
April 23, 2010One way Detroiters are fighting back is by taking advantage of the U.S. Social Forum, an event expected to draw tens of thousands.
Read morePresident takes fight to Wall Street
April 23, 2010In a speech yesterday at New York's Cooper Union college, President Obama, literally in the shadow of the center of world finance, declared that "the crisis was born of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street...
Read moreSNCC 50th anniversary meet mixes nostalgia and determination
April 22, 2010RALEIGH, N.C. - With a mix of nostalgia and renewed commitment, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) held its 50th anniversary conference here, April 15-18.
Read moreTexans demonstrate for jobs, immigrant rights
April 21, 2010DALLAS -- Workers in front of Bank of America here in Dallas on Tax Day, April 15, demanded that banks help pay to create the 11 million jobs lost as a result of the economic crisis...
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