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Hip hop for the people
January 28, 2005NEWARK, N.J. – Ras Baraka, an educator and deputy mayor of Newark, announced the founding of Hip Hop for the P.E.O.P.L.E. at a recent press conference. Comedian Bill Cosby and numerous hip hop artists and producers...
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Si Gerson, 95, journalist and electoral expert
January 28, 2005Simon W. Gerson, veteran journalist and legendary fighter for working class political representation, died on Dec. 26, 2004 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at 95. A member of the national committee of the Communist Party USA, Gerson’s activism...
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Day of Reckoning chronicles lives of Lucy and Albert Parsons
January 28, 2005Review NEW YORK — Talented young African American playwright Melody Cooper’s historical drama, “Day of Reckoning,” chronicles the lives of famed anarchist and freed slave, Lucy Parsons, and her husband, Albert, a former Confederate soldier. The...
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Shirley Chisholm: Unbought & Unbossed
January 28, 20051972 was an extraordinary year. Richard Nixon was president, running for his second, ill-fated term. The voting age had just changed from 21 to 18, and millions of new voters were expected at the polls. The...
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Unfinished battle for school funding
January 28, 2005OPINIONThe following testimony, slightly abridged here, was presented to the New York City Council Commission on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Jan. 13. I have two children in elementary school in the Bronx and one in...
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