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Music review: Musicians respond to Sept. 11
August 9, 2002Steve Earle’s new album, Jerusalem, will be released on Sept. 24. He returns to his typically sharp and insightful political response to the world as he sees it. Earle said, in a recent interview, that President...
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Walking with a Prisoner of Conscience
August 8, 2002Prisoner of Conscience, a Memoir, by Kenneth Kennon, 88105-020, Former Prisoner of Conscience (POC) Kenneth Kennon ranks high among the minority of those who walk their talk. This devoted family man and friend, minister and counselor,...
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Economic recovery? Not for African Americans
August 8, 2002Although the official unemployment rate for July stood at 5.9 percent, it was 9.9 percent if “hidden” unemployment – those who would work if they could find jobs – were taken into account, and that’s bad.
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Racial discrimination and income
August 8, 2002Two recent studies, one by Katherine L. Bradbury, vice president and economist at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, and the other by two Rutgers Law School professors, document the extent of employment discrimination against African Americans...
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House votes to allow travel, trade with Cuba
August 8, 2002Those who have been fighting for 40 years to end the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba scored a stunning victory in the House of Representatives late last month. On July 23 the House approved a series...
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