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War in Iraq takes horrifying toll

April 4, 2003 By Susan Webb

As the war in Iraq entered its third week, reports of casualties show the mounting physical and psychological toll on the Iraqi people and on U.S. soldiers as well.

Memphis 1968: We remember

April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)

Money needed to stop SARS

April 3, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Not far below the media war-hype radar, an international worry is mounting over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a dangerous respiratory disease.

CHICAGO – In his speech to the March 1 Rally to Reclaim Our Rights, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, blasted President Bush’s drive to war with Iraq and warned of...

Dont spend a nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle

April 3, 2003

TOLEDO, Ohio – “Don’t spend a nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle!” shouted the crowd of over 400 people as they marched down Broadway Avenue here. Students, community members, and organized labor gathered to commemorate the...

War in Iraq takes horrifying toll

Memphis 1968: We remember

Money needed to stop SARS

Conyers blasts Bush, Ashcroft

Dont spend a nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle