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20,000 march to protest anti-immigrant sheriff

January 18, 2010 By Joe Bernick And George Mores

PHOENIX - United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta and singer Linda Ronstadt were among more than 20,000 people who marched to protest "out-of-control" Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

U.S. prepares to celebrate MLK Jr. Day

January 13, 2010

It's been more than 25 years since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized as a federal holiday.

The ruckus over Harry Reid

January 11, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

Words do matter. But Republicans are the worst offenders when it comes to racism.

Keep Cesar Chavez in Texas textbooks, UFW urges

January 11, 2010

The United Farm Workers of America is urging supporters to stop the Texas state Board of Education from eliminating Cesar Chavez and other historic Latino leaders from public school textbooks.

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.