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PITTSBURGH — As the mostly African American and Latino congregation was preparing for weekly Friday prayers at Light of the Age mosque here on June 30, a dozen FBI agents raided the building and lined up worshippers outside at gunpoint.

As teachers unions geared up for campaigns to challenge the Bush administration’s troubled education law, the No Child Left Behind Act, up for reauthorization next year, the U.S. Education Department quietly released a blockbuster report concluding that public schools perform as well as, and sometimes better than, private schools.

The streets outside the National Labor Relations Board office in Washington were sizzling, and it wasn’t just the July heat. For the first time in its 70-year history, the board was shut down for two hours July 13 as nine union and religious leaders, backed by 1,500 labor supporters, blocked traffic outside

WASHINGTON — As 3,000 NAACP convention-goers applauded, Julian Bond, the chair of the nation’s largest civil rights group, accused the Republican ultra-right of scheming to block or suppress Black and other minority votes in this year’s midterm election.

BALTIMORE (AP) - About 74 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois led civil rights group the NAACP from its convention in Washington to a historically black college in Harpers Ferry to lay a tablet to honor militant abolitionist John Brown. But Storer College officials objected, saying it was too militant.

Subtle variations on the paper ballots used in a May primary election in Cuyahoga County made them unreadable to optical scanners, a review released Monday found.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, rejecting efforts by Southern conservatives to relax federal oversight of their states in a debate haunted by the ghosts of the civil rights movement.

Muchos piensan que la legislación migratoria fue matado por los republicanos en la Cámara, pero quizás, para parafrasear a Mark Twain, los reportes de su muerte son exagerados. Si el atasco entre la Cámara y el Senado se desvanece pronto, el movimiento pro derechos de inmigrantes tendrá que aumentar sus actividades.

El Partido Comunista EEUU fuertemente condena a las más recientes agresiones de parte del gobierno israelí contra el pueblo palestino.

Pesquisas científicas realizadas por la Universidad de Dakota del Norte muestran que la utilización del nombre y logotipo del equipo deportivo “Fighting Sioux” (“Sioux Luchadores”) [los Sioux son una agrupación de etnias indígenas norteamericanas] tiene un impacto significativo con los estudiantes