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Center Stage gives world premiere of 'Mud Blue Sky'
Center Stage seems to have a thing for public accommodations these days. The company’s last play was set in a nondescript motel room. The current one is set in a nondescript hotel room. The deja vu feeling is intensified since both productions have...
Tags: Everyman Theatre, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Rome (Italy)
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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: Niagara Purple Eagles, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Boston Celtics, Demerol (drug), Elvis Presley
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Datebook
Monday, Jan. 21 Annual breakfast Anne Arundel Community College hosts the 32nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in the David S. Jenkins Gymnasium on the Arnold campus, 101 College Parkway. The...Tags: Music, Maritime (music group), Anne Arundel Community College, Severna Park, Movies
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The white role in the black struggle
Last week I wrote about a young community organizer named Dayvon Love. Mr. Love and his fellow activists in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots advocacy organization he cofounded, may be the city's strongest proponents of black empowerment....
Tags: Thalidomide (drug), Minority Groups, Racism
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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Gordon Parks, Civil Rights, Muhammad Ali, Minority Groups, Manhattan (New York City)
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Md. must nurture minority leadership
Black History Month reminds us that our diversity is the fabric of our nation. We recently commemorated the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and we are reminded that this coming August marks the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream"...Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Demographics, Black History, Sonia Sotomayor
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Henry Ford, Civil Rights, Rush Limbaugh, Minority Groups, Black History
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Center Stage offers pay-what-you-can performance for MLK Day
Center Stage welcomes the New Year with Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop," a play set in the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on April 3, 1968. The main characters are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a maid who stops by his room. The production, directed by...
Tags: Barack Obama
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Former student protesters remember civil rights battle over the Northwood Theatre
Movie tickets at the Northwood Theatre cost just 90 cents back in 1963. But for some, the price of admission was considerably higher. It took years of picketing and nights in jail for hundreds of African-American college students and their supporters...
Tags: Voting, Civil Rights, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), University of Maryland, College Park, Teachers
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Optimists celebrate, appreciate achievements of local youngsters
Claire Fitzgerald and Peter Smith, eighth-graders at St. Joseph School in Cockeysville recently received the Timonium Optimist Club's award during Youth Appreciation Week. Youth Appreciation Week is an annual Optimist International program. The...Tags: Afghanistan, Holidays, Breads, Separation of Church and State, Christianity
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Nun famous for work on death row lobbies in Annapolis
The Baltimore SunMoments after Gov. Martin O'Malley urged lawmakers that "it is time to repeal the death penalty in Maryland and replace it with life without parole" during his State of the State speech Wednesday, a Roman Catholic nun famous for her repeal work resumed...Tags: Punishment, Death Penalty, Martin O'Malley, Christianity, Justice System
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Highland/Fulton: Bare walls? Come to art auction at St. Louis Catholic Church
Do you have bare walls that need dressing up? Come join the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Daughters of America as they sponsor an art auction on Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the church hall at St. Louis Catholic Church in Clarksville. Undoubtedly, you...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Bare (music group), Appetizers, Dining and Drinking, Passion Pit (music group)
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