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Africa Day can help prevent repeat of history
May 27, 2005News Analysis May 25 is celebrated throughout the African Diaspora as African Liberation Day (ALD) and African countries commemorate it as Africa Day. Founded in 1958 as Africa Freedom Day and changed to ALD in 1963,...
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Massillon memorializes murdered strikers
May 27, 2005MASSILLON, Ohio — A solemn crowd watched as Mayor Francis Cicchinelli Jr. dedicated a plaque on the town square here to the three steelworkers killed during the historic “Little Steel” strike of 1936. The strike kicked...
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End funding inequity
May 27, 2005SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Thousands of students, educators and community leaders filled the Capitol rotunda here May 18 to protest the deepening crisis of state education funding. The protesters came from all over the state. More than...
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Remembering the Memorial Day massacre
May 27, 2005The Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees is hosting a picnic and rally May 29 in Chicago to commemorate those who died for workers’ rights and for those continuing the struggle today. Below is a historical essay...
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Racism in East Texas
May 27, 2005The four white men who beat an African American unconscious and left him for dead near Linden, Texas, received incredibly light sentences from an all-white jury on May 13. Two received a plea-bargained sentence of 30...
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