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EDITORIAL: Good riddance, John Bolton
December 8, 2006John Bolton delivered the Bush administration’s bellicose, arrogant war-first policy to the UN, and U.S. voters took him out. For a year Democrats and even some Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blocked confirmation of...
Read moreA Pioneer of Black Radio, Bernie Hayes: Ive always been on the peoples side
December 8, 2006Bernie Hayes’ career as a radio disc jockey has spanned over 50 years. As an African American radio pioneer, he has participated in historic civil rights and union battles to break down racism within the industry....
Read moreEqual education, not segregation: Marchers tell high court to uphold school integration
December 8, 2006WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 on two lawsuits seeking to terminate voluntary desegregation programs in public schools, a thousand protesters, mostly Black, Latino and white college students, marched outside...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Racism is still a threat
December 1, 2006A majority of voters rejected Karl Rove’s use of “wedge issues” to split and weaken the movement against the Republican right in the Nov. 7 elections. And this week, our lead article reports that Smithfield workers...
Read moreDj vu as anger rises over Florida vote tally
December 1, 2006Anger is spreading across Florida that once again, as in the 2000 election, vote theft has put the wrong candidate in office in Washington. Wealthy Republican businessman Vern Buchanan has been certified as winner over Democrat...
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