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Philly voter signups spell trouble for GOP
October 1, 2004PHILADELPHIA — All summer long, hundreds of volunteers have been beating the bushes here, looking for unregistered voters to sign up to vote on Nov. 2 in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The results have been...
Read moreNationwide rallies support immigration bills
October 1, 2004More than 2,000 immigrants and supporters rallied in Chicago Sept. 25 to call for maximum voter participation in November.
Read moreHotel workers seek industry-wide contract
September 25, 2004LOS ANGELES — By an overwhelming 83 percent vote, 2,000 hotel workers here voted Sept. 15 to authorize their union to call a strike if needed. The Local 11 UNITE HERE members joined fellow unionists in...
Read moreAnthony Toney, painter, educator, activist
September 25, 2004Anthony Toney, a noted New York painter whose career spanned 70 years, died Sept. 10 in Marin County, Calif., at 91. At the height of his career, Toney exhibited regularly in New York, taught classes throughout...
Read moreBanned church play finds larger audience
September 25, 2004CHICAGO — When Delle Chatman, artist and writer turned graduate theology student, wrote “The Answer,” to be performed at St. Gertrude’s Catholic Church Oct. 1-3, she was hoping to start a dialogue between disparate groups about...
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