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Black farmers settlement is “win for all family farmers”
February 23, 2010Willie Adams, a Black farmer in Greene County, Ga., hailed President Obama's $1.25 billion proposed settlement of a lawsuit by Black farmers demanding compensation for 80 years of racist discrimination in federal farm loan programs.
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Dying for health care, suburbanites sit in to “get it done!”
February 23, 2010WILLOWBROOK, Ill. - Sixty-eight Americans die prematurely every day because they can't get access to health care coverage.
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Snow job
February 23, 2010People Before Profits columnist says it's not a jobs bill, it's a snow job.
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At the last minute, supermarket janitors win contract
February 23, 2010OAKLAND, Calif. - On the eve of a scheduled strike vote, the janitors who keep Safeway supermarkets clean around northern California have won a new contract preserving their health and pension benefits and raising the base...
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CPUSA in the 1960s: an interview with Jarvis Tyner
February 23, 2010Jarvis Tyner is the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and the chair of the party's African American Equality Commission. He joined the CPUSA in the early sixties, just as the Civil Rights Movement...
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