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Historic battle for voting rights is front and center
May 29, 2012Newly elected Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merril, a Democrat, was stunned to discover that her Republican counterparts across the country were all focused on how to keep the number of voters down in their states.
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A tribute to Philip Levine, poet laureate of workers
May 25, 2012Philip Levine has just completed his year-long term as the U.S. poet laureate.
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Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field
May 25, 2012They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.
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Labor history: “Bonus Army” starts national movement
May 25, 2012Eighty years ago today, the first "Bonus Marchers" arrived in Washington, D.C.
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X-Men presents comics’ first interracial gay wedding
May 24, 2012Astonishing X-Men #50, which hit shelves May 23, was the issue in which Northstar proposed to his boyfriend.
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