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ESPN honors Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney
March 1, 2010Lester Rodney was a crusader for equality and instrumental in integrating baseball as sports editor with the Daily Worker in the 1930s, says ESPN in a recent video on its website.
Read moreTeacher dies in hail of handgun bullets
March 1, 2010Killing of teacher Jennifer Paulson, 30, in Tacoma, Wash., following Colorado school shootings, spurs calls for tighter gun control.
Read moreSolidarity with Rio Tinto miners: ‘From the Docks to the Desert’
March 1, 2010Trucks loaded with $30,000 worth of food, followed by a 150-car convoy, converged on the Rio Tinto Borax mine and plant in Boron, Calif., in solidarity with locked out miners.
Read moreBlack history, labor history intertwined in Detroit
March 1, 2010Between the two World Wars, the groundwork was laid in Detroit's Black community that culminated in the organizing of the world's most powerful corporation.
Read moreLabor moves to dump Arkansas senator
March 1, 2010The AFL-CIO will reportedly put "everything we've got" into a primary election challenge against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a Blue Dog Democrat described as "just terrible for working people."
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