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Artists speak out for peace at Rock the Vote Awards
February 28, 2003NEW 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
February 28, 2003One 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
February 28, 2003On 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
February 28, 2003Forty 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
February 28, 2003The 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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