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ESPN honors Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney
March 1, 2010Lester Rodney was a crusader for equality and instrumental in integrating baseball as sports editor with the Daily Worker in the 1930s, says ESPN in a recent video on its website.
Read moreTeacher dies in hail of handgun bullets
March 1, 2010Killing of teacher Jennifer Paulson, 30, in Tacoma, Wash., following Colorado school shootings, spurs calls for tighter gun control.
Read moreBlack history, labor history intertwined in Detroit
March 1, 2010Between the two World Wars, the groundwork was laid in Detroit's Black community that culminated in the organizing of the world's most powerful corporation.
Read morePhilly celebrates African American history with calls for peace action
February 26, 2010PHILADELPHIA -- More than 50 people crowded into the Du Bois Center on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia last Friday to hear Anthony Monteiro, professor of African American Studies at Temple University, deliver a history lecture.
Read moreFor one county, the worst is yet to come
February 26, 2010For at least one California county's budget it's a crisis that will only get worse.
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