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  • Jean Harnish, equality advocate, dies at 89

    Jean Harnish, equality advocate, dies at 89

    April 16, 2004

    BALTIMORE – Jean Harnish, a social worker and an advocate for race and gender equality, died in her sleep at the home of friends March 30, her 89th birthday. She was a reader of the People’s...

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  • Human rights inspectors needed in U.S.

    Human rights inspectors needed in U.S.

    April 16, 2004

    CHICAGO – In general, academic conferences are not filled with the stuff that makes great news stories. All to often, when “learned” folks get together, the result is a long discussion that produces little real-world application....

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  • Briefly noted

    Briefly noted

    April 16, 2004

    Reviews NEW YORK CITY: Play about Haymarket Riot Melody Cooper has written an award-winning play titled “Day of Reckoning” about Lucy and Albert Parsons that deals with their involvement in the labor movement in Chicago and...

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  • FDNY Brotherhood

    FDNY Brotherhood

    April 16, 2004

    Film review NEW YORK – @radical.media’s feature documentary, “Brotherhood,” directed by Lilibet Foster, a cinema verite-style immersion into the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), will premiere May 3 at the Tribeca Film Festival here. The...

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  • The universe is elegant

    The universe is elegant

    April 16, 2004

    “We are living, we are dwelling, in a grand and awful time; in an age on ages telling to be living is sublime.” These lines from a familiar hymn were written in the middle of the...

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