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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: Harvard University, Comcast Center (arena), Students, Environmental Issues, Ecosystems
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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: Republican Party, Orange County Register, Primaries, Cancer, Elections
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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: Baltimore County, Annapolis, Human Rights, Carroll County (Maryland), Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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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, United States Naval Academy, World War II (1939-1945), Graduation, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, broke color barrier at Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living.
He was 85.
"It's important for America to...Tags: NAACP, Annapolis, U.S. Army, Graduation, Cancer
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...Tags: Annapolis, Cancer, Engineering, Unrest, Conflicts and War, College Sports
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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: Basketball, Seton Hall Pirates, Howard Bison, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Sports
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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... -
Baltimore showing solidarity with slain Fla. teen
Today marks one month since Trayvon Martin's death, and thousands of people are expected to descend on the small Florida city where the youth was slain by a neighborhood watch volunteer, including an NFL star and a prominent church leader from Baltimore....Tags: Christianity, NAACP, Community College of Baltimore County, Safety of Citizens, Baptist
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Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans
When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall.
There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Baltimore County, Racism, Johns Hopkins University, Teaching and Learning
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Elizabeth Catlett blended art, social goals
Baltimore Sun reporterOne of Elizabeth Catlett's linotypes could horrify viewers by depicting the aftermath of a lynching, the rope around the victim's neck held taut by the murderers' boots. And in the next room, a statue by Catlett of a mother and child would flood viewers...Tags: Artists, Harriet Tubman, Baltimore Museum of Art, Slavery, Martin Luther King Jr.
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