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Negotiate now or face a strike, say L.A. teachers
March 3, 2015Red shirts filled LA's Grant Park last Thursday, across the street from City Hall, in a rally of educators, students, and parents.
Read moreParsing race, politics, and pot in Florida
March 2, 2015A Florida legislator has reintroduced a bill Feb. 24 to legalize recreational marijuana use in the state.
Read moreOakland workers celebrate new minimum wage
March 2, 2015On Mar. 2, tens of thousands of Oakland workers will get a pay raise, and thousands more will have paid sick days for the first time.
Read morePeople lobby for police accountability bill filed in Maryland state legislature
March 2, 2015It's a sign of the effectiveness of protests that have occurred here - as well as nationwide - against police killings of unarmed African Americans.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Death of Anne Frank, Holocaust martyr
March 2, 2015The exact date is undetermined, but on or about this day 70 years ago, in 1945, Anne Frank perished at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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