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March for love, peace, and jobs on Valentine’s Day
February 21, 2013"There is hope, [when] young people lead us in a march for justice, for jobs, to have the courage to stand up."
Read moreToday in black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
February 20, 2013Born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Fla., while they were selling produce from their island farm, Poitier began life in humble working-class circumstances, which he never forgot.
Read moreToday in black history: Du Bois organized Pan African Congress
February 19, 2013W.E.B. Du Bois was an early proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to free African colonies from European powers. The first of those was on Feb. 19,1919.
Read moreFilipinos lured into “slavery” in Louisiana
February 19, 2013Sleazy 'recruiters' lured the workers here with assurances of plenty of money, a status job and U.S. citizenship, but when they got here they became indentured servants
Read moreUnion leader says politics behind attack on public workers
February 19, 2013Attacks have no basis in financial fact, President Harold Schaitberger says. They're part of a larger Wall Street scheme to get its hands on workers' pension money nationwide, he believes.
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