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  • Philly voter signups spell trouble for GOP

    Philly voter signups spell trouble for GOP

    October 1, 2004

    PHILADELPHIA — 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...

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  • Nationwide rallies support immigration bills

    Nationwide rallies support immigration bills

    October 1, 2004

    More than 2,000 immigrants and supporters rallied in Chicago Sept. 25 to call for maximum voter participation in November.

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  • Hotel workers seek industry-wide contract

    Hotel workers seek industry-wide contract

    September 25, 2004

    LOS 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...

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  • Anthony Toney, painter, educator, activist

    Anthony Toney, painter, educator, activist

    September 25, 2004

    Anthony 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...

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  • Banned church play finds larger audience

    Banned church play finds larger audience

    September 25, 2004

    CHICAGO — 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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