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  • Artists speak out for peace at Rock the Vote Awards

    Artists speak out for peace at Rock the Vote Awards

    February 28, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    NEW YORK – This year’s Rock the Vote Awards couldn’t have been more timely. With a stated goal of “protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world,” the group used this star-studded...

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  • One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles Teenie

    One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles Teenie

    February 28, 2003

    One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris, Introduction by Stanley Crouch. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001, $35 Pittsburgh, Pa., has produced an astonishing number of Black music legends – Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Billy...

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  • Reflections on the return of school segregation

    Reflections on the return of school segregation

    February 28, 2003

    On Jan. 16, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University released a 67-page report with a grim message: racial segregation has returned to U.S. schools at levels not seen for three decades. The report has implications...

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  • WNBA  one cent on the dollar

    WNBA one cent on the dollar

    February 28, 2003

    Forty years ago this year, the Equal Pay Act was passed. In 1963 women working full-time, year-round were making just under 60 cents to a man’s dollar. It was still legal to separate the want ads...

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  • Patriotism and the media

    Patriotism and the media

    February 28, 2003

    The mass media are bombarding Americans with proclamations that the global revulsion to George Bush’s policies is “anti-American.” In a recent exchange on C-SPAN a French reporter held a copy of Le Monde, one of the...

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