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Lester Rodney: Daily Worker sports editor led struggle to integrate baseball

January 6, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

Lester Rodney, who as sports editor for the Daily Worker from 1936 to 1958, helped lead the struggle that broke major league baseball's color barrier, died Dec. 20 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Feds, civil rights groups gear up for 2010 Census

January 5, 2010

The Obama administration launched an unprecedented $340 million promotional blitz for the 2010 Census on Monday with the debut of the Census Portrait of America Road Tour.

Banks making huge profits from toxic assets

January 5, 2010 By John Wojcik

What the government really did for the financial giants in March as a way to help them unload their toxic mortgage securities was put up a sign that read, "Free money, come and get it."

Ethics violations haunt John McCain

January 5, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., may have violated Senate rules when he recorded an anti-healthcare reform telephone message.

Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’

January 4, 2010 By John Wojcik

It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...