Obama wins more union backing, pushes massive job creation
Presidential candidate Barack Obama, during a speech to auto workers at the GM plant in Janesville, Wisc., Feb. 13, put forward his support for what amounts to a large chunk of labor’s program to re-vitalize the country.
U.S. labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers
Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the U.S. – Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death squads there is put to a stop.
Seismic shift in 'Potomac primary'
BALTIMORE -- Holding a clipboard with the names and addresses of registered voters, Erin Wheeler, 16, went door-to-door for Barack Obama in Northeast Baltimore Tuesday Feb. 12, the “Potomoc Primary.” She is my youngest granddaughter.
Love, Loss and Longing of Cubans and Cuban Americans
In “Love, Loss and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban American Families” by Jeanne Parr Lemkau and David L. Strug, a beautiful collection of photographs and first-person narratives captures the hardships inflicted on Cuban-Americans, and their relatives in Cuba, by the Bush administration’s draconian travel restrictions.
Some terrific new childrens books
Right now public libraries and local bookstores are featuring titles for African American history month, and next month they will be featuring titles on women’s history. Here are some new titles for children that you won’t want to miss.
Timing is everything
Bringing to justice the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack is something everyone in our country would like to see.
Digging out of crisis
Many analysts say the United States is already in a recession. Whatever it’s called, economic crisis is a grim and grinding daily reality for the millions who are jobless, underemployed, struggling with soaring health care costs, losing their homes to foreclosure or already homeless.
Joyous magnificence, African American experience through words and deeds
There is a consistent, if not conscious, effort to make it appear as if the African American people have become a sea of dehumanized barrenness in the desolate ghettoes of inner cities.
