“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” –- Marcus Garvey …

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President Elect Barack Obama addressed a sea of people in Grant Park, Chicago last night, with a historic speech to mark a history-making event. The US has, after more than 200 years, finally elected a person of color to the nation’s highest office. How significant is his victory? How did he win? And what lies …

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While mainstream media approached last night’s election with uncertainty, citing individual polls about the race narrowing, one Princeton professor predicted Obama’s landslide victory weeks ago. The Princeton Election Consortium, run by Dr. Sam Wang, has been publishing a “meta-analysis” of state-by-state polls and predicting with strong certainty, an Obama win of more than 350 electoral college …

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Despite extremely long lines and hours and hours of waiting, it seems as though the voting access problems plaguing the past two elections were not as pronounced last night. Perhaps that’s because the wide margin of Obama’s victory created a big enough buffer. Still, the mainstream media is saying that voting problems were isolated and …

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While all eyes have been on the elections, a group of immigrant rights activists have been fasting for three weeks at Olvera Street in Downtown Los Angeles demanding attention to the disappeared issue of immigration in the election. More than 150 immigrants have reportedly participated in the so-called “Fast for Our Future” …

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Pacifica’s Aura Bogado was at Grant Park in Chicago last night, where she watched now President Elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from just a few yards away. She also spoke with dozens of supporters about Obama’s victory. This morning, we hear from a four very, different people she spoke with, who all say they …

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The Illinois Senator is President Elect – Barack Obama has won the presidential election in a landslide victory. He now has much work ahead of him. In addition to the economy, the war in Iraq remains. We go live to Iraq to hear how people in that nation are reacting to last night’s election. Barack …

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With Barack Obama winning the presidential election, a racial barrier has been broken that many African Americans never thought they would witness in their lifetime. Obama, as the nation’s first black President, more than 200 years after the nation’s founding, garnered close to 100% of the black vote, and greater numbers of African American voters to …

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Six months after the California Supreme Court cleared the way for gay and lesbian couples to wed this summer, California voters are narrowly choosing to amend the state constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. With 95% of precincts reporting, Prop 8 has is passing 52-48% with $73 million were spent …

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Susan B Anthony “Illegally” Votes by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and thirty-six years ago on this day in people’s history, Susan B. Anthony voted for President almost fifty years prior to women’s suffrage. On November 5th, 1872, the pivotal leader of the 19th century women’s rights movement cast her ballot on the belief that the fourteenth amendment …

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