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Dorothy Height, godmother of civil rights movement
April 23, 2010Dorothy Height is remembered as a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose life's work and activism stretched from the New Deal through the 2008 election of President Obama.
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Detroit ministers prepare for U.S. Social Forum
April 23, 2010One way Detroiters are fighting back is by taking advantage of the U.S. Social Forum, an event expected to draw tens of thousands.
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President takes fight to Wall Street
April 23, 2010In a speech yesterday at New York's Cooper Union college, President Obama, literally in the shadow of the center of world finance, declared that "the crisis was born of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street...
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Chicago labor to march for jobs
April 23, 2010Under the banner of "Good Jobs Now! Make Wall Street Pay" Chicago labor and allies will be marching on LaSalle Street, Chicago's version of Wall Street.
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Novels, memory and the Holocaust
April 23, 2010Holocaust Remembrance Day just passed, and it got me thinking about memory and empathy.
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