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Juneteenth celebration recounts harsh history lessons
Local students learned important lessons about black history Saturday as they celebrated the Juneteenth holiday at Valencia College's West Campus. Juneteenth has its origins in Galveston, Texas, where on June 19, 1865, slaves first learned that they had...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Abraham Lincoln, Valencia College, Gainesville
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Barbara Ingram grad opens one-woman exhibit at Washington County Arts Council
Artist Erin Mettille opened her one-woman exhibit and hosted an opening reception at the Washington County Arts Council May 30. Mettille’s art was chosen from multiple submissions to be the “look” of the 18th annual Western Maryland...
Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Arts
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First take on Kanye West's 'Yeezus': dark, defiant, polarizing
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticOne of the most striking metaphors for the tension within “Yeezus,” the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives nearly 25 minutes in during a song called “I’m in It.” It involves a Martin Luther King Jr. quote. “Thank...Tags: Kanye West, Slavery, Music
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The Doctor is right for Stanley Cup Finals
The Orange County RegisterIs there a more perfect match in sports broadcasting than Mike "Doc" Emrick and the Stanley Cup playoffs? No one's better at capturing the frenzied drama of postseason hockey. No one comes up with more ways to elegantly describe shots, passes, checks and...Tags: DirecTV Group Inc., CBS Corp., Keith Jones, New York Yankees, ESPN (tv network)
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America: Choosing security over liberty since 1798
Foreign PolicyWASHINGTON — In the past week, Americans have learned of a dizzying array of heretofore unrevealed surveillance programs, part of a hidden security structure ostensibly designed to prevent terrorist attacks from ever occurring on U.S. soil again....Tags: National Security Agency, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, National Government, Central Intelligence Agency
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Annapolis renames street for George and Marion Phelps
George and the late Marion Phelps are being recognized Wednesday when officials rename Middle Street in the Parole neighborhood of Annapolis for them at a 4 p.m. ceremony. George Phelps was the first African-American sheriff's deputy in Anne Arundel...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
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Do not take food from the needy
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceCongress should not cut federal nutritional assistance. I know. I myself have received needed assistance. In 2009, in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, millions of Americans made a discovery they had apparently given...Tags: Sergio Garcia, NBC (tv network), Justice System, U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Party
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Judge reluctantly sends guard to prison for killing aspiring rapper
Calling it perhaps the most distressing case of his career, a Lehigh County judge on Tuesday reluctantly sentenced a security guard to state prison for gunning down a rapper who the judge said "glorified drug use and violence." Judge Robert L. Steinberg...
Tags: Laws, Murder, Justice System, Lawyers, Judges
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Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields
The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured,...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, U.S. Supreme Court, Trips and Vacations
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A.J. Duffy, still-feisty former teachers union chief, retires
The lineup of must-see videos for the high school class on public speaking was notable: Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., Mussolini, President Obama — and A.J. Duffy, the former president of the L.A. teachers union and also the instructor. The...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Academic Progress, Language, Students
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Letters to the editor: Trayvon, Scouts, tax code
As someone who was living in Washington, D.C., during the riots following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., I was appalled to hear a local minister being interviewed on NPR equate Trayvon Martin's death to the deaths of King and Medgar...Tags: Social Organizations, Casselberry, George Zimmerman, Justice System, Internal Revenue Service
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A journal in a Glendale thrift store, a glimpse into a more politically conscious youth
The spring and summer of 1968 were an agony for the United States, especially for young Americans and black Americans. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. In June, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, here in Los Angeles, in the...
Tags: Patt Morrison, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Assassinations
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