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Labor blasts recall drive in California

July 18, 2003

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Labor and other progressive organizations are denouncing a recall petition bankrolled by extremist Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) aimed at ousting Gov. Gray Davis as a blatant power grab. Issa has poured more than...

White House lies prompt call for inquiry

July 18, 2003

As President Bush and other administration officials scramble to explain away their use of doctored evidence to launch a preemptive war on Iraq, calls for independent, bipartisan investigations grow. Mounting evidence shows that the administration’s top...

NAACP cheers call to oust Bush in 2004

July 18, 2003 By Debbie A. Bell

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – In the state where the 2000 presidential election was stolen, NAACP delegates cheered calls to oust George W. Bush from office “and send him back to Crawford, Texas” in next year’s election.

Latino population grows in U.S.

July 11, 2003

At the recently concluded convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Louis Kincannon, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, announced that Latinos became the country’s largest minority group in July 2002. The Latino population...

Sports, leadership and politics

July 11, 2003

OpinionAs a senior on the Manhattanville College basketball team, Toni Smith drew wide media attention when she turned her back on the flag before games last winter to protest the impending war on Iraq. This article...