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Paul Newman: more than blue eyes

Paul Newman, remembered for his acting, his famous blue eyes, his race car driving and his socially conscious, organic Newman’s Own foods, died Sept. 26 at the age of 83. Newman, along with his wife Joanne...

Shades of Green: October 4

Pow! Bam! Comics give it to the system

BOOK REVIEW Inside the World of Comic Books Jeffery Klaehn, Ed. Black Rose Books, 2008 Paperback, 258 pp., $24.99 By Tim Pelzer While there are no longer comic racks in every corner store, comics are still...

How a globalized system creates illegality

BOOK REVIEW Illegal People By David Bacon Beacon Press, 2004 Hardcover, 261 pp., $26.95 Photojournalist and activist David Bacon provides us with a useful and readable account of undocumented migration to the United States. He takes...

Congressional Black Caucus meet ends awarding Obama Harold Washington Prize

The recently concluded Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend is “right in the heart of what’s going on,” said Representative Corrine Brown (D-Florida). Major themes at the caucus were health care and the sub-prime crisis. Indeed as...