U.S.
Equal education, not segregation: Marchers tell high court to uphold school integration
December 8, 2006WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 on two lawsuits seeking to terminate voluntary desegregation programs in public schools, a thousand protesters, mostly Black, Latino and white college students, marched outside...
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EDITORIAL: Racism is still a threat
December 1, 2006A majority of voters rejected Karl Rove’s use of “wedge issues” to split and weaken the movement against the Republican right in the Nov. 7 elections. And this week, our lead article reports that Smithfield workers...
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Dj vu as anger rises over Florida vote tally
December 1, 2006Anger is spreading across Florida that once again, as in the 2000 election, vote theft has put the wrong candidate in office in Washington. Wealthy Republican businessman Vern Buchanan has been certified as winner over Democrat...
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Deval Patrick win makes civil rights history
December 1, 2006BOSTON — Newspapers headlines throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts unanimously proclaimed the Nov. 7 electoral victory of Deval Patrick as “historic.” And right they were. Patrick, a former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the...
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GOP anti-immigrant agitation backfires
November 18, 2006Commentary Since last December the Republican right has tried to use undocumented immigrants as a collective “Willie Horton” to distract voters’ attention from the massive failures of GOP policy, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, declining...
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