This day in history: The Great American Meatout
The day promotes a meat-free diet to improve health, protect the environment, and save animals.
Florida rally says: "Buzz off, Monsanto"
Central Floridians turned out or the March Against Monsanto targeting the biotechnology mega-corporation and its role in the propagation of genetically modified seeds.
Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
In 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.
"Long time coming": Congress OKs compensation for Black farmers, Native Americans
The legislature approved a landmark bill to pay $4.6 billion in compensation to African American farmers and Native Americans.
