civil rights
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Arrest of former Black Panthers aims to erase revolutionary legacy
On Jan. 23, police arrested eight men on charges relating to the 1971 killing of police sergeant John V. Young.…
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Nearly 800 arrested in racist immigration raids in California
Over the past year, the U.S. government has stepped-up attacks against undocumented workers with mass arrests and deportations. In California,…
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Florida high school student sues to have Gay Straight Alliance club
A student at Okeechobee High School and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Nov. 15, 2006, to…
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Over 744,000 homeless in world’s richest country
A recent report released by the National Alliance to End Homelessness last week gave a grim picture of the state…
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Atlanta police lied about home raid that killed elderly Black woman
The Atlanta Police Department confirmed what the community already suspected in the police killing of an elderly African American woman…
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Smithfield workers walk out to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, he was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting the sanitation workers’…
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AIDS drug company Abbott Laboratories inflates prices to reap more profits
Breakthroughs in medical research in the mid 1990s provided new hope for people infected with HIV, the virus that causes…
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1,000 emergency protests the day after Bush announces Iraq war escalation
Amelia McDonald, Ian Thompson, Sunil Freeman, Ben Becker, John Beacham, John Peter Daly, Jane Cutter, Jon Britton, Tahnee Stair and…
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Worldwide protests mark fifth anniversary of Guantánamo torture camp
Thursday, Jan. 11 marked the fifth anniversary of the first detainee being brought to the U.S. prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.…
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Struggling for justice: A message from Leonard Peltier
"Much of the government's behavior at the Pine Ridge Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be…
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