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Next storm for Baltimore will be rain
Maryland WeatherThere is a storm in the forecast for Baltimore. The National Weather Service says we have a 60 percent chance for precipitation on Sunday as another storm crosses the southeastern U.S. and tracks up the coast. This time, with temperatures in......Tags: New Year's Day, Vehicles, Weather, Weather Reports, Baltimore Weather
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Trice: Obama-inspired quilt exhibit had troubled past
![When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67241505-08190944-187105.jpg "When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44,\" in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to museums in cities around the country.")
When Jim Smoote II completed his quilt, called "Obama 44," in time for an exhibition that opened in Washington for the 2009 presidential inauguration, he expected that the exhibit — like others he'd been involved in — would travel widely to...Tags: Politics, Minority Groups, Human Interest, Emmett Till, Washington, DC
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Former major leaguer Don Buford keeps the dreams alive
It is early Monday morning, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But Don Buford is not standing on a stage and talking about having a dream. That's not his style. Besides, he has already lived one himself, the kind Dr. King preached about. Buford has a new job,...
Tags: Chicago White Sox, Brooks Robinson, USC Trojans, Martin Luther King Jr., Football
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South Florida gay community thrilled by Obama's speech
When he heard the president's words last Monday, Norm Kent said he jumped out of his chair and threw up his right fist as if "Giancarlo Stanton had just hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth for the Marlins." Carole Benowitz said, "I had goosebumps....
Tags: Politics, Minority Groups, Gay Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Justice and Rights
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No patsy now
WASHINGTON -- My inner Pollyanna was basking in blissfulness, rolling in the hay of righteous rhetoric, backstroking through the sunny sibilance of aspiration. Drunk, apparently, on alliteration. It was a perfect day. Cold but not freezing. Crowded...
Tags: Government Health Care, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama
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MLK Day observance planned at HCC Jan. 21
Hagerstown Community College will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Celebration Monday, Jan. 21, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Kepler Theater. The celebration will begin with a musical performance by the New Joy Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist...Tags: Music, Martin Luther King Jr., Schools, Entertainment, Preschools
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Geno Auriemma Calls Kelly Faris' Effort 'Game For The Ages'
The Hartford Courant— Geno Auriemma, a Hall of Fame coach who has seen it all, done it all over nearly three decades in Storrs, knew when he had witnessed something special. The opposing coach, one whose team had trailed by only two at halftime and still lost by 30,...Tags: Kelly Faris, Shea Ralph, Theft, Chris Dailey, Stefanie Dolson
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Hello, friends
Hope all is well. It was a lovely January weekend, for sure. Wouldn’t it be nice to think that spring is here? Oyster supper set for Saturday The Rohrersville Ruritan will hold an oyster, ham and turkey dinner Saturday from 1:30 to 5 p.m. The... -
King would still be fighting poverty
Aldon Morris is a Northwestern University professor who has accompanied busloads of students traveling from the school's Evanston campus to Chicago's Far South Side, passing through areas where President Barack Obama once stomped as a community organizer....
Tags: Minority Groups, Poverty, Martin Luther King Jr., Employment Opportunities, Justice and Rights
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'Never give up The Dream'
South Bend TribuneEvery year around Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, we start hearing about King’s best-known speech, delivered during the 1963 March on Washington. We all know and have heard many times the vision of racial equality so beautifully expressed...Tags: Racism, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Explaining Obama's second inaugural to a first-grader
A letter to my daughter, Natalia: When Barack Obama was sworn in as president four years ago, I watched on the frigid National Mall with 1.8 million others after taking a long bus ride from South Florida. I stood next to an elderly woman from Fort...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Politics, Elections, Justice System, Barack Obama
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Obama should be channeling Bill Cosby
At the risk of being branded a one-trick pony, I launch into this week's column. Last week, in this space, I pondered the self-imposed chains that continue to shackle black America. Today, I revisit that theme. As the father of two, and uncle to, an...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Jesse Jackson, White House, African-American History Month
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