Rock Creek, Montana Barack Obama became the first United States President to go inside a federal prison. No doubt the rightwing will feast on this for days, but for the rest of us his visit should be a feast of celebration because it takes another sturdy step forward towards a more explicit recognition of the …
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Supreme Court Ok’s Building A Separate and Unequal Educational System
New Orleans There are now more than a dozen states that have banned the use of race as an affirmative action tool in determining admission to state funded colleges and universities. The Supreme Court in reviewing a ban by voters in Michigan determined on a 6-2 vote that it was OK with them. They went …
Historians Begin to Look at ACORN’s Impact
Milwaukee If it has been said that newspapers “write the first draft of history,” perhaps it is panels like Lessons from ACORN organized by Oregon State Professor Marisa Chappell at the national conference of the Organization of American Historians that starts to outline the second draft. At the least an excellent panel of very knowledgeable folks …