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June 19, 2007 -
As many know, today is Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 that African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas were informed that they were free -- over two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth.org provides more background:
June 19, 2007 -
The great North Carolina crusade against "voter fraud" ended today with a sputter.
June 19, 2007 -
In January of 2007, a Knoxville TN couple out on a date were carjacked, raped, and brutally murdered. The victims were both white. All five suspects arrested in connection with the crime are black. You can read about the horrific crime here.
June 19, 2007 -
A team of 30 college kids on bicycles rode through Western North Carolina and over the mountains to East Tennessee last week on their way to San Diego. Their mission: To raise awareness of affordable housing issues and to raise money for the Orange County NC chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
June 19, 2007 -
Joining together to create what they call the "largest coalition of environmental grass roots organizations ever assembled in North Carolina," two dozen groups working for environmental justice are holding a vigil this week outside the North Carolina legislature to draw attention to the state's hog waste pollution problem and the toll it's taking on people and the environment.
June 18, 2007 -
The social disaster that began unfolding more than a year ago in Durham, N.C. after a black woman hired to strip-dance at a Duke University lacrosse team party claimed -- falsely, as it turned out -- she was gang-raped by several white men appears to be moving into the long-term recovery phase.
June 18, 2007 -
I didn't know this until running across SusanG's post at DailyKos:
