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Congressman Elijah Cummings lives in a Spike Lee joint
The Baltimore SunRep. Elijah Cummings wants folks to know that he's keeping it real. Like really, really, really real. Starting with where he lives. He told a crowd at Howard University Wednesday just how down-and-dirty real his Baltimore neighborhood is. “I...Tags: Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Spike Lee, Baltimore City College
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Saved from bulldozer, UM 'hillock' teems with life
Harvard University has a research forest. So does Duke. Yale has multiple forests. The University of Maryland has “the wooded hillock." a 24-acre patch of trees at the northern tip of the state's flagship public campus. Though tiny, largely...
Tags: Natural Resources, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Forestry and Timber, Science and Technology
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The mayor: Blowing up The Block
During my time in office, members of the downtown business community and other citizens urged me to take action against the area known as The Block. Since the end of World War II, The Block has been a concentration of strip clubs and X-rated bookstores....
Tags: World War II (1939-1945)
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News briefs for Thursday, May 17
In a first, census figures show minorities make up more than half of babies born in US WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration...
Tags: Justice System, Orange County Register, Labor Markets, Armed Forces, Minority Groups
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Rev. Marion Bascom, civil rights activist and pastor, dies
The Rev. Marion C. Bascom, a leading Baltimore civil rights activist remembered for his lifetime quest for social justice, died of a heart attack Thursday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 87 and lived in Reservoir Hill.
"A giant has...Tags: Civil Rights, Activism, Religion and Belief, New York City, Martin Luther King Jr.
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First black Naval Academy graduate dies
The first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy has died, according to an announcement from the school Wednesday.
Wesley Brown started at the academy in 1945, after the first five black men to attend failed to complete their first year...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Graduation, United States Naval Academy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Korean War (1950-1953)
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More than 250 tickets sold for Doleman Black Heritage Museum's fourth annual Fall Fundraiser
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comThe family and friends of the late Marguerite Doleman, who founded and operated an African-American museum in her North Locust Street home, turned out by the hundreds Saturday night to support finding a permanent site for the artifacts that took her...Tags: John P Donoghue, Museums, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Slavery
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Sister's ex-boyfriend charged with murder in Phylicia Barnes case
![For nearly a decade, Michael Maurice Johnson dated the half-sister of Phylicia Barnes. He went along on family trips, and played basketball with their brother. He was like family, and considered Phylicia a "little sister," relatives say.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-04/69604628-26134236.jpg "For nearly a decade, Michael Maurice Johnson dated the half-sister of Phylicia Barnes. He went along on family trips, and played basketball with their brother. He was like family, and considered Phylicia a "little sister,\" relatives say.")
For nearly a decade, Michael Maurice Johnson dated the half-sister of Phylicia Barnes. He went along on family trips, and played basketball with their brother. He was like family, and considered Phylicia a "little sister," relatives say.
He was also...Tags: Police Arrests, Justice System, Reisterstown Road, College Sports, Social Media
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Laurel products prepare for March Madness
There are 345 college men's basketball teams at the Division I level and the National Collegiate Athletic Association allows each to have three full-time assistant coaches on staff. Laurel High graduate Antoine Gaither has been on staff at Howard...Tags: Seton Hall Pirates, College Sports, George Mason, Basketball, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Commissioner Robinson at SeaWorld – on volunteering and Ron Blocker
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelEducation Commissioner Gerard Robinson, on his swing through Central Florida, also stopped at the ADDitions School Volunteer and Partners in Education recognition event, which was being held at SeaWorld for the 20th year. He told the crowd that... -
Olive Ann Evans, federal worker
Olive Ann Evans, a retired federal employee active in Masonic orders, died of a heart attack March 13 at her daughter's Walbrook home. She was 86.
Born Olive Ann Dillard in Sharon, Pa., she was the daughter of Thomas Dillard, a steel worker, and...Tags: Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Freemasonry, Washington, DC, Heart Attack
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Baltimore NAACP plans Monday rally for Trayvon Martin
The Baltimore branch of the NAACP will hold a downtown rally Monday in memory of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The rally is part of a flurry of action from Maryland churches and civil rights groups seeking to memorialize Martin, the 17-year-...Tags: Justice System, Civil Rights, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), U.S. Department of Justice, NAACP
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