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Educators challenge No Child Left Behind
July 21, 2006Public schools equal, even outdo, private schools As teachers unions geared up for campaigns to challenge the Bush administration’s troubled education law, the No Child Left Behind Act, up for reauthorization next year, the U.S. Education...
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NAACP vows to fight vote suppression
July 21, 2006WASHINGTON — As 3,000 NAACP convention-goers applauded, Julian Bond, the chair of the nation’s largest civil rights group, accused the Republican ultra-right of scheming to block or suppress Black and other minority votes in this year’s...
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NAACP honors abolitionist John Brown
July 20, 2006BALTIMORE (AP) - About 74 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois led civil rights group the NAACP from its convention in Washington to a historically black college in Harpers Ferry to lay a tablet to honor militant...
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Problems Found With Diebold Voting Machines in Ohio
July 20, 2006Subtle variations on the paper ballots used in a May primary election in Cuyahoga County made them unreadable to optical scanners, a review released Monday found. It was the county’s first election using Diebold’s touch-screen and...
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House passes Voting Rights Act renewal
July 14, 2006Southern conservative efforts on amendments failRep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses the Voting Rights Act. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting...
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