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Remembering Shirley Chisholm
November 30, 2016According to Chisholm: “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
Read moreGwen Ifill, 61: PBS journalist
November 18, 2016“We can’t expect the world to get better by itself,” she said. “We have to create something we can leave the next generation.”
Read moreQuill Pettway, 94: A giant laid to rest
January 20, 2015Quill Pettway, labor organizer and civil rights pioneer was part of a generation of Communists and radicals who made Detroit's rich labor and civil rights history.
Read moreTucson’s ethnic studies stems from desegregation decree
May 20, 2010The courses and curriculum banned by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer were originally created to help settle a race discrimination lawsuit in the 1970s.
Read moreFrank Lumpkin, “Saint of Chicago,” dies at 93
March 10, 2010Frank Lumpkin, the "Saint of Chicago" and life long fighter for worker rights, full equality and socialism, passed away March 1 at the age of 93.
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