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The speakers talked about the Senate leadership and Senator Lott, including their letter to Senator Trent Lott urging him to resign his position as Senate Minority Leader. Following their pr…

Participants talked about levels of voter turn out in the 2002 midterm elections among the African-American community and the impact that black votes had on election results. They also answe…

Participants talked to reporters about a campaign to include Sojourner Truth in a monument to the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. Capitol. Following their remarks they answered questio…

Participants talked about strategies to build coalitions between minority groups with similar interests and the possibility of creating a “supermajority.” Following their remarks they answe…

Labor leaders and civil right activists spoke on the steps of the Florida Supreme Court building about the 2000 election results and the inauguration of George W. Bush. Among the issues they…

Representatives from various women’s groups spoke to reporters about their objections to the nominations of Senator Ashcroft as attorney general and Governor Thompson as secretary of health …

Participants talked about voter turnout in the African-American community, problems with treatment of the community in several Florida counties, and other issues facing black voters.

Participants spoke about organizing and ways to advocate feminist policy goals. Among the topics they addressed were opposing the religious right, reproductive rights, same sex unions, and g…

The speakers called on the House managers to stop torturing Monica Lewinsky. They asked the Senators to end the trial which is an embarrassment to our country and get back to work.

Ward Connerly of the American Civil Rights Institute and Columbia University Professor Michael Eric Dyson debated the effectiveness of affirmative action. They discussed whether affirmative …

Feminist leaders spoke to the press about the potential impeachment of President Bill Clinton. They strongly objected to impeachment proceedings and urged both women and men to actively oppo…

In the newspaper roundtable of the C-SPAN Washington Journal program Wade Horn, National Fatherhood Initiative and Yvonne Scruggs, Black Leadership Forum talked about current news stories of…

Rebecca Mouse Yahola and Ava Muhammad talked about their experiences as minority women, how their lives were influenced by their families and society, and the state of race relations in the …

Mayor Marion Barry talked about the rescue package President Clinton signed the previous day which gave control to a federally appointed panel to administer various city functions. He talked…

Members from the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies held a news conference to talk about race relations. The results of an opinion poll on race relations were released and participa…

The Coalition of 100 Black women & 100 Black Men held a panel discussion on the place of the black voter in the U.S. electoral system, the significance of the black vote, whether politic…

National Political Congress of Black Women Conference focused on the devolution of powers and responsibilities to state and local governments, participants talked about the dangers and chall…