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We too sing America. The struggle for African American equality, from slavery to today
November 3, 2006Returning this fall to the campus where he became a professor, Walter R. Allen led a mainly student audience at the University of Michigan’s School of Education through the history of the African American struggle against...
Read moreStem cell battle in Missouri
November 3, 2006The Stem Cell Initiative on the ballot in Missouri would amend the state’s constitution to protect stem cell research and therapies allowed by federal law. Missouri would be the first state to do so. The campaign...
Read moreInequalitys cause: loss of power
November 3, 2006Recent data show economists, not welders and machinists, need retraining Recently, there has been growing recognition of the enormous increase in U.S. income inequality that has occurred over the last 25 years, bringing back inequality levels...
Read moreOaxaca bleeds, but does not give up
November 3, 2006News Analysis On Oct. 29, the rightist lame duck president of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quezada, sent in 4,000 Federal Protective Police armed with tanks, helicopters, water cannons and high powered rifles to clear the southern city...
Read moreImmigrant mother defends sons future
November 3, 2006CHICAGO — Two and half months have passed since Elvira Arellano took sanctuary here at a northwest side church, defying U.S. government efforts to deport her to Mexico. Arellano is optimistic about her prospects, and says...
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