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Schools boycott addresses inequities in state education funding
August 23, 2008CHICAGO – The end of summer vacation is right around the corner and you know what that means. Yes, that’s right, students everywhere are gearing up here to march back to school beginning Sept. 2. But...
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Progressive Democrats of America Illinois conference
August 22, 2008With the revived prospects for the Democratic Party no longer apparently facing Karl Rove's permanent Republican majority a growing number of politically committed people have asked the question, 'What would or should a resurrected Democratic Party...
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Don White Presente!
August 22, 2008I love Los Angeles. Not the la-la land of the media. I like downtown LA, east of Hill St., the Maginot Line the LAPD puts up to keep the homeless away from the high rises. I...
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One of the greatest stories of all times The Memphis sanitation workers strike remembered
August 22, 2008BOOK REVIEW Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. By Michael K. Honey. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2007, 623 pp. SAN FRANCISCO — Fortieth anniversary events this year have highlighted...
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Another Olympic first
August 22, 2008Cullen Jones, only the second African American to make the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, is the first African American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for his performance in the team’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay....
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