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How the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution

February 3, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

For us black high school students in the 1950s, it seemed like black people were always the victims. Greensboro was different.

Dallas re-lives its Black history

February 3, 2010

The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.

Historic union contract signed at Foxwoods

February 2, 2010

"We have voted and we now have a contract!" exclaimed a game-table dealer and member of UAW Local 2121 at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Machinists fight for their pensions

February 2, 2010 By Bruce Bostick

"If predatory bankers can come in here and steal the pensions these workers earned, then nobody in our nation is safe!" said Jim McClellan, president of International Association of Machinists District 54.

Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling

February 2, 2010 By Susan Webb

The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.