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Students protest racist team names
January 12, 2002MINNEAPOLIS – As the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” hockey team arrived here to play the University of Minnesota Gophers Jan. 5, it was greeted with placards and shouts calling on the team to change...
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Vigil launched to lift sanctions
January 12, 2002OAKLAND – Supporters of the lifting of sanctions against the Republic of Haiti held the first of a series of weekly picketing and protest at the Federal Building here Jan. 3. The vigil is aimed at...
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New Yorkers meet Bloomberg with demands
January 12, 2002NEW YORK – A citywide coalition of New Yorkers gathered at the steps of City Hall Jan. 2 to voice their concerns and present a set of demands to Michael Bloomberg, the city’s new mayor. At...
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Letters
January 12, 2002Mayor’s race begins to boil African American civil rights leaders presented a list of demands for the mayoral candidates in the Jan. 19 election. Lee Alcorn and Rev. L. Charles Stovall gathered a group of reporters...
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Editorials
January 12, 2002Silence is deadly The Justice Department announced a new drive to round up 6,000 Middle Eastern men out of 300,000 people who have visa violations. This dragnet based on racial profiling is yet another step in...
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