Ten Things to Do to Start a Community Garden

Spiraling food prices and concerns over where food comes from have consumers looking for alternatives to what’s in their supermarket produce bins. Community gardens help people band together to gain control of their own food.

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Job Losses Persist for the Less Educated

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Article Reprint After suffering the largest share of job losses in the recession, Americans with no more than a high school education have continued to lose jobs during the sputtering recovery while

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Spelling Bee Sets Austin abuzz

About 50 kids from eight schools competed in the second annual spelling bee taking place April 8-10. One winner who was definitely brightened up was Marteena Duckins, an 8-year-old, third-grader from Nash Elementary School who won a trophy and $100 savings bond

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Can You Prove What You Believe?

Most people smugly drift along through life holding ideas and beliefs that they have never proved! This may not be too dangerous when it involves opinions about sports teams, or about who was the world’s greatest politician, the most beautiful actress or things of that nature…..

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White Sox Quietly Becoming Contendors with No One Watching

Stan McNeil Article Reprint CHICAGO— If you asked me three days ago to rank the top five American League favorites to reach the World Series, I would have gone Yankees/Rangers, Rays, Tigers and Angels or,

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Chicago Will Never Get the “Man”

This Article First Appeared in The Black Truth News Vol. 1 Issue 7 June 2010 Chicago sports teams relish the role as the number two city <         Jarrod Horton Staff Writer

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The Satya Interview: A Word with Dick Gregory

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dick Gregory has been a humorist and social activist for over 30 years…..

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A Trailblazer of Civil Rights Dies Forgotten

Found the body of a 75-year-old woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during unexpectedly frigid weather

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