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January 18, 2002Election battles forming Battle lines are already shaping up in the crucial 2002 elections, in which all 435 House seats and one-third of the Senate seats will be up for grabs. President Bush and the Republican...
Read moreThe Chicago Freedom Movement: Summer 1966
January 18, 2002The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. To visit The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,...
Read moreCharlotte Gray
January 12, 2002Charlotte Gray, directed by Gillian Armstrong, is faithful to Sabastian Faulks’ prize-winning book on which it’s based. It sharpens the roles of the key players in the German occupation of France during World War II. The...
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January 12, 2002Mayor’s race begins to boil African American civil rights leaders presented a list of demands for the mayoral candidates in the Jan. 19 election. Lee Alcorn and Rev. L. Charles Stovall gathered a group of reporters...
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January 12, 2002Silence is deadly The Justice Department announced a new drive to round up 6,000 Middle Eastern men out of 300,000 people who have visa violations. This dragnet based on racial profiling is yet another step in...
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