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Editorials
February 1, 2002Meeting the challenge African-American History Month begins against the backdrop of deepening working-class poverty and unemployment, ongoing racial profiling and more Black men and women in jail than in college. The Sept. 11 attack is still...
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Major victory at Chicagos V&V
February 1, 2002CHICAGO – On Jan. 21, production workers at V&V Supremo Cheese in the mostly Mexican Pilsen community here voted to ratify their first union contract. They had voted more than a year ago to be represented...
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Texas labor endorses minority candidates
February 1, 2002AUSTIN – The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) endorsed two minority and pro-affirmative action candidates for governor and Senate at its Jan. 15 convention here. For many delegates, the defining issues were previous political...
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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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Letters
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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