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Human Rights Day in the real world

December 12, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Outside, gray skies and a chill wind cast a pall over drab storefronts and modest homes in the economically struggling West Oakland neighborhood.

Miami lessons: civil rights, recounts and tea-bags

December 11, 2009 By John Rummel

Before the civil rights movement burst onto the national scene, Bobbi Graff and people like her were leading struggles against lynching and police brutality and for desegregation.

Ft Drum killings: Another legacy of post traumatic stress?

December 11, 2009 By Tod Ensign

Early Tuesday morning, December 1st, Jefferson County sheriffs' deputies discovered the bodies of two Ft Drum soldiers, Spec. Waide T James, 20, of Cocoa, FL and Spec. Diego Valbuena, 23, of Port St Lucie, FL.

NY rally highlights health care’s human face

December 10, 2009 By Dan Margolis

Eric de la Cruz wasn't poor and just over five years ago, after visiting several doctors, Eric was told that he had a serious heart ailment that was curable by a transplant.

Liberals, centrists praise tentative health reform deal

December 10, 2009 By John Wojcik

Health care reform advocates in Congress and some who have been resisting reform say the reported Senate compromise puts substantive health care reform within reach.