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Millions of union members to get wage hikes this year
September 11, 2015"This country is having an important debate about raising wages and tackling income inequality."
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Today in Latino history: The murder of Myrna Mack
September 11, 2015Mack was murdered by a military death squad due to her criticism of the Guatemalan government's treatment of the indigenous Maya.
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Today in Latino history: Musician José Feliciano turns 70
September 10, 2015Better known simply as José Feliciano, he is a virtuoso guitarist, singer, and composer renowned for many international hits.
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Today in history: “BaddDDD” black poet Sonia Sanchez is born
September 9, 2015Since the 1970s Sanchez has published a steady stream of poetry books and plays.
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Iran deal popular with constituents of undecided representatives
September 8, 2015A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that voters want their elected officials to vote to move it forward.
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Today in labor history: 50th anniversary of Grape Strike and Boycott
September 8, 2015For the first time in American history, Chávez and the UFW decided to use a boycott in a major labor dispute.
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Today in history: Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio” in Berlin, 1945
September 4, 2015"A political prisoner's wife goes undercover, infiltrates the family of the prison guard and frees her husband from a secret dungeon just as the tyrant is about to kill him."
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Today in history: 70 years since Vietnam independence proclaimed
September 2, 2015In 1945, after Japan's surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence of Vietnam from France and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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