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In 50th year, Scholar Athlete award continues impact on local high school sports
The plaque hangs on the wall of the doctor's office, proof of its worth to Greg Brouse, 1981 grand-prize winner of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete award. "My kids can't believe I was either a scholar...
Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, High School Baseball, Fava Beans, Oncology, Baltimore Colts
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Channeling the spirits in color and line at Ellicott City gallery
Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. The artist says that in the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, he can best hear the "spirits" talking. He says he's been hearing the spirits steer his brush since he...
Tags: Religious Events, Côte d'Ivoire, Arts and Culture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Pioneer in Education: Garrard Native Fought For Education For Black Children
Contributing Writer(Editor's note: Research for this article was taken from the biography of Don Goodloe written by Richard Morris in the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography, an on-line resource of the Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society.) A...Tags: Prince George's County, Colleges and Universities, Anglicanism, Towson, Students
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Athletes honored
Black History Month 2013 In honor of Black History Month, the Doleman Black Heritage Museum recognized the following athletes during a program Feb. 23 at The Maryland Theatre: Tom Parson Jr. Parson played basketball at North Hagerstown High School and...Tags: Benedict College, North Carolina State University, Financial Aid, High School Sports, College Basketball
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5 questions for Frank Savage
A businessman and competitive sailor, Frank Savage has benefited from following seas and been battered on rocky shoals. Born in North Carolina and raised by a single mother in segregated Washington, Savage rose to prominence in the world of...
Tags: The New York Times, Finance, U.S. Congress, Johns Hopkins University, Citigroup Incorporated
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Doleman Black Heritage Museum Celebration of Black History a family affair
matthewu@herald-mail.comThe 4th Doleman Black Heritage Museum Celebration of Black History on Saturday at The Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown was a bit of a family affair for the Parsons. Cathy Parson and her brother, Tom Parson, were among those honored at the event for their...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Education, Arts and Culture, Women's National Basketball Association
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A quarter-century of nurturing Baltimore's leaders
Jan Houbolt may be the most influential Baltimorean you've never heard of. As head of the Greater Baltimore Committee's Leadership Program since 1989, he has helped groom some of the state's up-and-coming leaders through a 10-month-long series of site...
Tags: Malcolm Gladwell, Arlington (Staten Island, New York)
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In 'Hoodwinked,' Laurel filmmaker challenges statistics on black men
On Capitol Hill, in African-American churches and at historically black colleges and universities, people are talking about a documentary film that challenges negative reports and statistics regarding blacks, especially black men. "Hoodwinked," produced...
Tags: Prisons, Baltimore City Community College, Prince George's County, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Inauguration 2013: Rev. Jeremiah Wright calls on Obama to promote peace
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former pastor whose sermons touched off a firestorm in the 2008 political campaign, urged Monday that President Obama heed the words of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and transform...
Tags: Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Former student protesters remember civil rights battle over the Northwood Theatre
Movie tickets at the Northwood Theatre cost just 90 cents back in 1963. But for some, the price of admission was considerably higher. It took years of picketing and nights in jail for hundreds of African-American college students and their supporters...
Tags: Prisons, Business, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr., Colleges and Universities
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Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz trumpeter was a funk-fusion experimenter
Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and '60s before he began experimenting in the '70s and '80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on discs such as "Black Byrd" and "Thank You ... for F.U.M.L....
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Entertainment, Miles Davis, Washington, DC, Nas
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Harry Truman, Lincoln's heir
Presidents Day, which falls between the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, celebrates the contributions of those presidents. But here's a nomination for another president worth remembering on this long weekend: Harry Truman, the first...
Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Politics, U.S. Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Crime, Law and Justice
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