civil rights
Today in labor history: Paul Robeson born
April 9, 2013On April 8, 1898 singer, actor, civil rights and labor leader, peace activist and athlete Paul Robeson was born.
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Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember
April 4, 2013An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.
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Reader voices: Relationships with no rights
April 4, 2013Conservatives continue to fight nature and necessity. For them, this is a ballgame without an end. For the rest of us, we may finally see the clock ticking down to victory.
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U.S. Supreme Court hears Calif. marriage equality case
March 27, 2013Another milestone was crossed March 26 in Californians' years-long quest for marriage equality.
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Marriage equality promises “a more perfect union”
March 26, 2013Legal experts and human rights activists describe this week's two cases before the Supreme Court on same-sex marriageas as monumental.
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