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Before he moved to Clairton, John Perryman led a Walter Mitty life: a teenage hatmaker in Seattle, then itinerant dock worker and eventual union head, traveling everywhere from Saudi Arabia to the Soviet Union before retiring to Pittsburgh and co-founding an orphanage in Ethiopia. Perryman “has experienced the American work scene from the bottom up,” […]
QUINCY (WGEM) – If you drive down U.S. 61 near Hannibal, you know how crowded the road can be. MoDOT has studied the expressway near U.S. 61 to find ways to improve it, and now they want to hear from drivers. MoDOT Assistant District Engineer Kevin James said they have been studying the expressway since […]
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ERBIL, Iraq — After a weekend of U.S. strikes against its proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, Iran has issued a strongly worded warning not to target a ship that U.S. officials and analysts suspect of providing real-time intelligence for attacks on other vessels in the Red Sea and . . .
SEPTA to honor activists who played key part in transportation industry, social change SEPTA to honor activists who played key part in transportation industry, social change 02:00 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – SEPTA on Monday will honor several activists who played a key part in desegregating the transportation industry . . .
Eagle Pass, Texas CNN — As the surge of migrants continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border, tensions between Texas and federal officials are escalating. Here are the latest developments: Texas authorities arrested migrants at Shelby . . .
In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men as part of a 40-year study observing the natural course of the disease. The experiment’s subjects – the majority of whom were sharecroppers from rural Alabama – believed they were undergoing treatment for […]
The following is testimony given by Dr. John Louis Flateau to the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate Joint Legislative Hearing on Solutions to the Disproportionate Impacts Of COVID-19 On Minority Communities, May 18, 2020, Local, state and national research has definitively established that Black Brooklyn and Queens are the epicenter of […]
JACKSON, Miss. — The mother of a 10-year-old Black child who was sentenced by a Mississippi judge to three months of probation and a book report for urinating in public has refused to sign his probation agreement and has asked for the charge against her son to be dismissed, the family’s attorney announced Tuesday. Latonya […]
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