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Ronald Takaki, 70, pioneer of multi-cultural studies
May 31, 2009Original source: BERKELEY — Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California's first Black history course, died...
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Is New York’s Mayoral race in the bag?
May 31, 2009NEW YORK—If you were to believe the hype, of which there’s no shortage, you would think that this city’s Republican-now-turned-independent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has the November elections in the bag. But how many people actually believe...
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Maryland residents hail Rep. Edwards anti-war stand
May 31, 2009Leaders of 23 Maryland-based organizations wrote to Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) thanking her for her “courage and foresight” in voting May 13th against the $96.7 billion supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan. The letter dated May 27th,...
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Palestinian Americans harshly sentenced
May 30, 2009DALLAS — With the selection of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice, Americans are hoping that the Obama era will put an end to the drift toward judicial tyranny here in the “land of the free.”...
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Celebrating their fifth
May 30, 2009Gay couples who brought the landmark lawsuit that led to the first legalized gay marriages in the United States at reunion in Newton Mass, May, 17, celebrate their fifth anniversaries, five years after Massachusetts became the...
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