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Committee seeks names for Annapolis marker honoring March on Washington
A committee building a new memorial in Annapolis has extended the deadline for names of those who took part in the August 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The committee had initially...
Tags: Annapolis, James Baldwin, Anne Arundel Community College
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'Mad Men' recap, 'The Flood'
At last, more insight into Don Draper's psyche. Now that old Don is back, most of season six's sins have been cyclical, from revisiting adultery and prostitution to a hefty resurgence in Don’s liquor bill. The reboot of old Don has sometimes...
Tags: Upper East Side, Ceremonies, Assassinations, Culture, Kiernan Shipka
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Whitmore Park plaque to remember those who marched on Washington in 1963
She stood with her husband, peanut butter sandwiches and homemade signs in hand, at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, and she was mesmerized as she listened to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech. "His was the speech that...
Tags: Minority Groups, Civil Rights, Annapolis, Highland Beach
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Isaiah 'Ike' Dixon, state delegate from Baltimore
Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included introducing a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in...
Tags: Local Elections, National Aquarium Baltimore, Annapolis, Government, 2012 Democratic National Convention
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'The Amazing Race' finale recap, Bates and Anthony win it all
Back in February, before we knew about crippling fears of water and low likeability factors and One Mullet to Rule Them All, 11 teams began a race around the world. Stuff happened with cheese and haggis. Alliances formed, craziness surfaced, teeth...
Tags: Nationals Park, Auto Racing, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Dining and Drinking, Music
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Endangered Hopkins museum exhibit back on schedule, minus two pieces
An exhibit at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen House that was thrown into doubt this week is back on, but without two artworks at the crux of a dispute between the artist and the curator. The two large pieces in question — one depicting a cross, the...
Tags: Artists, Fells Point, Museums, Judaism, Fine Artists
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Chechens in U.S. feel shame, fear over Boston bombing
When Albina Digaeva, a Chechen who was granted political asylum in the United States, first learned that the Boston bombing suspects were from Chechnya, she called the California family who initially put her up when she arrived 15 years ago and...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, University of Maryland, College Park, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Human Rights
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Arthur Machen Jr., Venable law partner
Arthur W. Machen Jr., a retired attorney who was also the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and a legal advocate for the poor, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former Ruxton resident was 92. A well-...
Tags: Justice System, Baltimore County, Government, Securities, Legal Service
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Eagle Archive: King's letter reminds us of a journey too long
On April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned a 7,000-word letter from a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala. The letter came in response to a statement by eight white Alabama pastors on April 12, 1963, titled "A Call for Unity." King had been...Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Sykesville
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Forget the revolution, there's a home game
I grew up in the 1950s in a sports-deprived area of southeast Georgia. Except for a not-so-close and generally unnoticed Georgia Florida league baseball farm team, there was no major league baseball, football or basketball. Sports meant cow pasture...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Sociology, Culture, Baseball, Rentals
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Jimmy Patsos does it his way, and Loyola keeps winning
Jimmy Patsos got what he wanted after all. "Three games in March," he said Sunday after Loyola beat Manhattan, 63-61, at Reitz Arena. Three games to win the upcoming Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships and get the automatic bid to the...
Tags: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Morphine (drug), College Sports, Basketball, Sidney Poitier
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On opening day, remembering Earl
April, in these parts, is irresistibly transformative. Vibrant life and color rise up and relentlessly overwhelm a drab winter's landscape, inspiring notions in the human heart of renewal and redemption. And with it comes another baseball season and all...
Tags: Earl Weaver, Baltimore Orioles, Memorial Stadium, Baseball, Buck Showalter
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