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No jobs, endless war: Bush has made a mess From labor to hip-hop, voters mobilize to defeat GOP
August 13, 2004CHICAGO — Eight thousand Pillowtex workers were thrown out of work a year ago when the textile giant shut its doors. Most are still out of work and will soon lose their unemployment benefits. click here...
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Payments to Black farmers blocked by U.S.
August 1, 2004Aggressive legal tactics by the Bush administration have deliberately undermined a landmark 1997 civil rights settlement with African American farmers, turning the claims process into another chapter in a long history of discriminatory treatment by the...
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Black Harvest to showcase new films
August 1, 2004CHICAGO – Five Chicago-based movies are part of this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival scheduled here Aug. 7-19 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Of the 18 features and six shorts, all but one will be...
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Antonio Gades dies
August 1, 2004Recognized as the greatest Spanish male dancer of his generation and an even greater choreographer, Antonio Gades died of cancer in Madrid on July 20. He was 67. Gades’ father, a building worker and communist, left...
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Prescription for a sick health care system
August 1, 2004Book Review Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System By Robert H. LeBow, M.D. Alan C. Hood Co., 2004 Softcover, 304 pp., $15.00 “America is the only developed nation that fails to...
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