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Remembering Carter G. Woodson
February 1, 2002Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 and chose to celebrate it the second week of February because it marks the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two men who left an indelible...
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January 26, 2002Free the Cuban five The recent political trial last year in Miami of five Cuban patriots resulted in a total breakdown in communication. Forty years of an inhuman criminal blockade has not destroyed the spirit of...
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January 26, 2002Time to fight, not run This session of Congress faces a multi-tiered crisis that includes George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism” and a declining economy, made worse by the collapse of Enron and the bankruptcy of...
Read moreSave Roe v. Wade
January 26, 2002The following is a press release issued by NOW President Kim Gandy. Roe v. Wade is in more danger today than at any other time in the last 29 years. George W. Bush’s anti-abortion agenda could...
Read moreMexican steelworkers occupy complex
January 19, 2002On Dec. 20, over 2,000 iron ore miners occupied the Sicartsa plant and three other neighboring steel plants in the huge steel complex located at Lázaro Cárdenas-Las Trujas, in the Mexican state of Michoacán. ISPAT Mexicana,...
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