U.S.
American Idol boots off Joanna Pacitti
February 14, 2009Controversial 'American Idol' contestant and former child star Joanna Pacitti has been booted off the talent show, apparently due to her past in the music business.
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Madonna the top-earning musician of 2008
February 13, 2009If anyone had any doubt that touring is where the money is in today's music business, a look at Billboard's top moneymakers of 2008 should hammer the point home.
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Reform blocked by racist groups
February 13, 2009The Southern Poverty Law Center in a recent report charges that three Washington D.C. organizations have racist roots and that they were the most responsible for blocking comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. All three — the...
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Honoring Ohio’s unsung heroes of 2008 elections
February 13, 2009Speaking to scores of activists in labor, community, farm, retiree and other progressive movements at events in three Ohio cities, Sam Webb, national chairman of the Communist Party USA, called for all out grassroots efforts to...
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Petitions urge DA to take further action in Oscar Grant murder
February 12, 2009OAKLAND, Calif. — The online civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change Feb. 10 presented the Alameda County District Attorney’s office with over 20,000 petition signatures calling on the DA to explain why he is not...
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