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  Federally Contracted Low-Wage Workers to Launch “Good Jobs Nation” Campaign for Living Wage and Voice on the Job DEMOS to Release Report Detailing Low-Wage Jobs Resulting from Federal Government Contracts, Loans, and Leases  ...

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Empowering Voices talks with Dr. Terry Mason

April 24, 2013 | 0 Comments

Empowering Voices talks with Dr. Terry Mason, CEO for Cook County Dept. of Public Health about the recurring bioethics episodes in the African American community...

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Coalitions and alliances are based on mutual interest and reciprocity. Therefore, people of African descent cannot allow their interests to be ignored in deference to anyone....

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“Dr. Winbush urges citizens committed to justice for Maryland’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to call, fax and email their elected representatives and urge them to tell Governor O’Malley to allocate $14 million per...

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As we pause to reflect on the legacy of Dr. King, the commemoration of his life has largely been reduced to ceremonies devoid of the moral and political imperative to continue the struggle for social...

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The Line documents the stories of people across the country living at or below the poverty line. They have goals. They have children. They work hard. They are people like you and me. Across America,...

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Whitewashing Jesus’ Judaism

March 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

Emptying Jesus of Nazareth of his ethnic and religious identity and their markers leaves a hollow shell that can be filled with anything at all – insert dominant culture here – and devalues and denies...

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Mr. Buck’s death sentence is an unconstitutional product of racial discrimination. He is entitled to a new, fair sentencing hearing free of racial bias....

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Iran, Nukes and Jesus

March 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

by Shayne Lee, Ph.D., Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned that time is expiring for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr. Kerry issued this warning on the same day that Vice President Biden...

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History Channel’s Satan and President Obama

March 18, 2013 | 0 Comments

At the same time, the treatment of race by these producers reproduces the racist history of Christianity in the West, particularly in the Americas where it supported and benefited from the Atlantic slavetrade....

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