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Pennsylvania unions launch massive campaign against voter ID law
July 18, 2013The Pa. AFL-CIO is pushing a huge online petition demanding the GOP-run state legislature repeal the state's "voter ID" law.
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Zimmerman verdict becomes rallying point for social justice action
July 15, 2013"If anything good is to come, this is the time to build a movement," said national NAACP spokesman Eric Wingerter this weekend as his organization gathered for its national convention.
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Juneteenth: Recognizing neighborhood heroes and heroines
July 10, 2013The community gathered to celebrate Juneteenth and to honor more than a dozen people from the neighborhood whose everyday activities make all the difference.
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Today in labor history: Mary McLeod Bethune born
July 10, 2013Mary McLeod Bethune, one of our great civil rights leaders, was born July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, S.C. Her parents were former slaves.
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Immigration reform threatened in the House
July 10, 2013This week, immigration reform advocates face some of their biggest hurdles ever.
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