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Murder of Tunisian leftist causes uproar
February 12, 2013Tunisia was the site of the first blooming of the "Arab Spring." The assassination of Tunisian leftist politician Chokri Belaid by unknown gunmen has thrown this North African country into turmoil.
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Today in black history: NAACP founded
February 12, 2013On this day in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - one of America's oldest civil rights organizations - was formed.
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Better know an owner: Clippers’ outrageous Donald Sterling
February 11, 2013It is incredibly ugly that owners such as Donald Sterling can latch themselves onto the games we enjoy and wreak so much social havoc.
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Virginia town was center of civil rights struggle
February 11, 2013Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 called the Danville Police Department one of the most brutal and vicious he had come across.
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Today in labor history: Mandela released
February 11, 2013By that time deputy national president of the ANC, Mandela helped to form Spear of the Nation, the armed wing of the Congress.
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