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Power, justice, freedom, vote: NAACP meets in Cincinnati
July 14, 2008“Power, Justice, Freedom, VOTE!” are the themes resonating through Cincinnati this week as over 9000 participants converge on this southern Ohio city for the NAACP annual conference. The civil rights organization will celebrate its 100th birthday...
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Florida too early to call for McCain
July 12, 2008TAMPA -- Thousands of Floridians gathered in locations throughout the state recently in support of Sen. Barack Obama's 'Unite for Change' call. From the overwhelming response of Floridians, from Tallahassee and Jacksonville in the north to...
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Workers Uniting history in the making
July 12, 2008The United Steelworkers union made history with its convention just held in Las Vegas. That’s history with a capital H. The kind of history that can forever change labor and our country. The kind of history...
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AMA apologizes for history of racial inequality
July 12, 2008CHICAGO, Ill. - The American Medical Association (AMA) today [July 10, 2008] apologizes for its past history of racial inequality toward African-American physicians, and shares its current efforts to increase the ranks of minority physicians and...
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WORLD NOTES: July 12
July 11, 2008Egypt: ‘Emergency’ rule goes on Parliament voted June 30 to extend emergency rule, in place since 1981, for two more years. In 2006, President Hosni Mubarak’s government promised that after two years of discussion new antiterrorism...
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