The War on Poverty Fifty Years Later

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The War on Poverty Fifty Years Later: More than 50 years after President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty, West Virginians continue to struggle. By Anne Moore BECKLEY -- When Job Corps, Head Start, Legal Aid, and Medicaid began, they were programs intended to provide ...
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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...
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