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Today in black history: Medgar Evers’ killer convicted
February 5, 2014White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred.
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Major Duke Energy ash spill turns Dan River gray
February 5, 2014Duke Energy and local officials assure residents that the water is fine. End of subject. But the crisis isn't over.
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Pete Seeger’s green activism in New York and New Jersey
February 4, 2014Seeger did much for New Jersey, taking a stand against ocean dumping . And he thought that a graceful boat would draw people to their forgotten riverfronts and imagine a different future for the Hudson River
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Marxist economist Richard Wolff draws overflow crowds
February 4, 2014They flocked to hear the unapologetically self-avowed "Marxian economist" who has long toiled in the obscurity of academia and left circles.
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In states like Missouri and Texas, reproductive rights still struggle
February 4, 2014Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case, sought to make abortion legal, safe, and accessible, but 41 years later attacks on reproductive health care are still going strong.
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