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How Sam Lacy helped integrate Major League Baseball
Like most films depicting historic accounts of real-life events, the bio-epic "42" carries the immediate disclaimer that it is based on a true story, leaving room for interpretive analysis and creative license. Consequently, dramatic interpretations are...
Tags: 42 (movie), Spring Training, Sports Legends at Camden Yards, Baseball, Yankee Stadium
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READER SUBMITTED: Percussionist William Hooker To Perform To Classic Silent Film
New BritainAfrican-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux's 1920 silent classic, "The Symbol of the Unconquered" was originally advertised as a chance to come see "the annihilation of the Ku Klux Klan." While clearly overly optimistic, the film was an important part of...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Music, Oscar Micheaux, New Britain
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: Washington, DC, Prisons, Justice and Rights, John Lewis, Terri Sewell
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The Not-So-Nice Mike Rice
Finally, someone has agreed that it’s not a good thing to have an adult COACH belittle, verbally abuse and denigrate his players by screaming explicatives, throwing balls at their heads and faces, and using homophobic slurs to describe their...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, National Basketball Association, ESPN (tv network)
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Boston bombing suspect belongs in civilian court
A 19-year-old naturalized American citizen is accused of committing a crime of violence in the United States, and a gaggle of elected officials are urging for him to be treated as an enemy combatant and placed in the hands of the military. Not just the...Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Al-Qaeda, Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), John McCain
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Second Amendment is not the only problem with the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is full of mischief. Bad guys often beat the rap, religious zealots can run amok, and citizens can deny entry to authorities who are only trying to find out what's being hidden. Worst of all, people are allowed to be self-reliant...Tags: Justice and Rights, Politics, Civil Rights, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Patrick J. Toomey
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Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in AAPACT play
Staff WriterShe was not thinking of writing a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. Janet Langhart Cohen was just enjoying her life in Washington D.C.’s social whirl as the wife of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William S. Cohen. But she did,...Tags: Langston Hughes, Religion and Belief, Anne Frank, Emmett Till, Kensington
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'Django Unchained' pays homage to Wagner's 'Siegfried'
When Los Angeles Opera presented its new production of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" a few years ago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the packed house included the usual assortment of donors and local opera buffs. Nestled somewhere in the orchestra...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Melancholia (movie)
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The decline of terrorism
Our era is known as the Age of Terror, and no wonder. Twelve years ago, the United States suffered its worst terrorist attack ever, and since then, we have lived under the shadow of atrocities designed to frighten as well as kill. The bombs that went...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Islam, Timothy McVeigh, Explosions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Birmingham 50 years later
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Carolyn McKinstry longed to visit the zoo. All Wash Booker wanted was a banana split from the lunch counter. In 1963, they were teenagers attending different high schools — black schools — in Birmingham....Tags: Religion and Belief, Prisons, Teaching and Learning, Justice and Rights, Students
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Not so nice - Mike Rice
Finally, someone has agreed that it's not a good thing to have an adult coach belittle, verbally abuse, and denigrate his players by screaming explicative's, throwing balls at their heads and faces, and using homophobic slurs to describe their...Tags: Abusive Behavior, National Basketball Association, ESPN (tv network)
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Victim of 1963 Alabama church bombing wants restitution, not medal
ReutersBIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A woman who survived a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed her sister and three other black girls in one of most heinous crimes of the civil rights era said she will not accept a medal that Congress may award...Tags: Spencer Bachus, Justice and Rights, Politics, Terri Sewell, Civil Rights
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