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Today in black history: Civil rights pioneer Claudia Jones is born
February 15, 2013Jones died in exile in Great Britain in 1964 at the age of 49, her health weakened from imprisonment in the U.S. because of her political activism.
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Postal workers: Fix USPS the right way!
February 15, 2013Since Congress must start all over again to fix the money troubles at the U.S. Postal Service, it should do so the right way.
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Today in black history: National Negro Congress formed
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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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Conversation: How Black freedom struggle shapes America
February 11, 2013Join People's World in celebrating African American History Month with a national teleconference presentation by Prof. Jamie Wilson.
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Today in labor history: State militia backs workers
February 7, 2013Gold miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado, began a five-month strike in 1894, news of which travelled rapidly from one end of the country to the other,
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Today in labor history: Bob Marley, champion of the oppressed, is born
February 6, 2013Bob Marley, who introduced reggae to the world and gave voice to the passion of oppressed people, was born 68 years ago in the Jamaican village of Nine Mile.
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Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
February 5, 2013In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.
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