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NATIONAL CLIPS: August 18
August 17, 2007JENA, La.: NAACP steps up to secure justice for ‘Jena 6’ “This is an American outrage that demonstrates the continuing shame of racial division in our country,” said Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP’s national board...
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White House launches anti-immigrant surge
August 17, 2007LOS ANGELES — On Aug. 10 the Bush administration, invoking its executive authority, announced a 26-point program of harsher, more punitive immigration policies, including the further militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the expansion of temporary...
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Blues bounty serves food bank
August 11, 2007Bernard Allison performs at the 13th Annual Pittsburgh Blues Festival, which was held July 20-22 at Hartwood Acres. The proceeds benefited the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Nationally known artists Delbert McClinton and Frank Marino were...
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Experiencing Afghanistan on foot
August 10, 2007BOOK REVIEW The Places in Between By Rory Stewart Harvest Books, 2006 Softcover, 320 pp., $14. Five hundred years ago, a displaced young prince named Babur traveled across what is now Afghanistan, from Herat to Kabul....
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Why are so many Americans struggling?
August 10, 2007BOOK REVIEW The Great Risk Shift By Jacob S. Hacker Oxford University Press, 2006 Hardcover, 256 pp., $26. Jacob Hacker examines a situation most Americans now face in their daily lives — growing economic insecurity. He...
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