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100 YEARS AGO — 1913 A carbonator has been installed at the depot restaurant and the Gilcher Hotel restaurant. They will now be enabled to serve soft drinks of all kinds in the most approved style. Alfred Campbell rounded out eight years running...
Tags: NAACP, Diabetes, Prosecution, Theft, Broken Leg
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Protests for equality become a battle for justice leading up to Bloody Monday in Danville
WDBJ7 ReporterJune 10th, 1963. It's a day Danville would rather forget, but at the same time one remembered as a turning point during the Civil Rights battle. Tonight we continue our month long series of reports on Danville's darkest day 50 years ago. Last week the...Tags: Entertainment, Civil Rights, Music, Prisons, Police Arrests
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Duke Ellington's music lives to be heard
It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...Tags: Concerts, Music Industry, Services and Shopping, Arts and Culture, Stan Kenton
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L.A.-born Episcopal leader brings his liberal views to Washington
WASHINGTON — A bearded young comedy writer espousing progressive views in Hollywood in the early 1970s might not have surprised anyone. But when the same man, who is now the Very Rev. Gary Hall, started advocating the same views from the...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Justice and Rights, Gun Control, U.S. Supreme Court, Gays and Lesbians
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Baltimore pastor wins award for efforts to fight poverty, crime
When passersby drive through West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester community, they won't see flags symbolizing unity or notice traces of an affluent town. What they will see is a neighborhood once riddled with drug trade and prostitution, now being...
Tags: Prisons, Habitat for Humanity International, Heroin, Farms, Open Society Foundations
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Obama awards top U.S. honor to girls killed in 1963 racial bombing
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama awarded the highest U.S. civilian honor on Friday to four black girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing 50 years ago, saying their tragic deaths ultimately "helped to trigger triumph." In a...Tags: Racism, Ku Klux Klan, Civil Rights, Prosecution, Barack Obama
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President praises Baltimore native at commencement
If Baltimore native Leland Shelton had bothered to check his email in the hectic day before graduation, he might have avoided a shock during commencement. There he was, one of 500 men in a black cap and gown this week at Morehouse College in Atlanta,...
Tags: Theft, The New York Times, Morehouse College, Politics, NAACP
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George Packer chronicles American boom and bust in 'The Unwinding'
George Packer's new nonfiction book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," has many of the qualities of an epic novel. Packer's subject is the last 35 years of U.S. history, the decades that gave us the conservative "Contract With...Tags: Religion and Belief, Oprah Winfrey, Services and Shopping, Real Estate, Book
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Ray Bradbury, Abraham Lincoln, Graduation, Yale University, Class Conflict
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Day of Hope is set for May 18
The community is invited to attend Day of Hope on Saturday, May 18, from noon to 4 p.m. at Wheaton Park to celebrate the History of Our Neighborhood with special historical tributes and a contest to win “Mr. Andy’s Money $$$.” The...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Dentistry and Dental Health, Housing and Urban Planning, Health, Politics
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Courtside is familiar venue for holiday weekend
Three-day weekends used to mean a day off of work and time spent with family. Period. This year, three-day weekends have evolved into something else. There is still a much-appreciated day off of work and some time spent with family, but a few more...Tags: The Herald-Mail, The Pennsylvania State University, Education, Colleges and Universities, Travel
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'Mad Men' recap: Slave to love
Being a "Mad Men" fan these days feels a little like being a woman who, after dating a string of jerks, finally gives a nice guy a chance and discovers that, hey, there's something to this after all. One of the ongoing debates about this season is...
Tags: Adultery, Linda Cardellini, AMC (tv network), Mayo Clinic, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963)
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May 10, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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