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Frank Bond Sr., neighborhood activist
Frank Bond Sr., a retired Maryland Transit Administration bus driver and neighborhood activist who believed in the value of education, died Monday of colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. "Frank was a wonderful man who treasured education...
Tags: Maryland Transit Administration, Colon Cancer, Media Industry, Towson, Christianity
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Museums, cultural institutions taking a snow day
Schools and government offices aren't the only things closing down in anticipation of today's snowstorm. Here is a partial list, continually being updated, of cultural and commercial institutions shutting down for the day. The American Visionary Art...
Tags: Port Discovery Children's Museum, Sports Legends at Camden Yards, Laurel Park, Maryland Science Center, American Visionary Art Museum
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Instagram, X specs and a Kevin Bacon premiere
As traffic continues to flow to coverage of Super Bowl preparations, the Roe vs. Wade anniversary and post-inaugural activities, a few newer topics have also bubbled to the surface in our collective consciousness. Instagram is posting impressive numbers,...
Tags: Google Inc., San Francisco 49ers, Media Industry, Twitter, Inc., National Football League
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Hundreds celebrate King holiday at Baltimore museum
Children used paper plates, yarn, feathers and beads to make dream catchers decorated with words and phrases like "hope" and "I have a dream" to celebrate the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday while their parents watched President Barack...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Pocomoke City, Museums, Barack Obama, John Lennon
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Kwanzaa event features African drummers, dance and theater
With rapt attention, 4-year-old Alexis Gamble fixed her eyes on three teenage girls, bare-footed in vibrant-colored dresses, as they danced to traditional African beats on Saturday, the fourth day of Kwanzaa.
The Gamble family, of Owings Mills, lights...Tags: Entertainment Events, International Travel, Kwanzaa, Museums, Holidays
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The collected poems of Lucille Clifton
Former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton was a former "Jeopardy" champion who used a Ouija board to communicate with her dead mother. She was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who as an adult unabashedly celebrated her physical self. And in the...
Tags: Poetry, Arts, Kevin Young, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Cancer
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Free Fall Baltimore receives $25,000 federal grant
Free Fall Baltimore, which today kicks off its seventh year of spotlighting no-charge arts and cultural experiences in Charm City, has received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will be used to help promote and raise...
Tags: Culture, American Visionary Art Museum, Museums, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Arts
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Harriet Tubman descendants gather for forthcoming centennial of her death
After Ernestine Martin Wyatt helped stage a walkout decades ago over a lack of African-American history lessons at her high school, a teacher pulled her aside to ask about Wyatt's family ties to Harriet Tubman. The Maryland-born slave and famed conductor...
Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Slavery, Railway Transportation, Harriet Tubman, Transportation
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Ray Lewis says he's still fighting to be a starter
On the eve of his 17th training camp with the Ravens, inside linebacker Ray Lewis said camp never gets old or boring for him. In fact, the 12-time Pro Bowler and certain Hall of Famer said he still feels like a rookie trying to carve out a niche for...
Tags: John Harbaugh, Football
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Ray Lewis working to shift spotlight from athletes in trouble
Athletes have been making news recently, and it hasn’t been entirely positive. From domestic violence to drunk driving to confrontations with media and fans, sports figures have been highlighted in the news. Those stories have pushed aside those of...
Tags: Ray Lewis, Football
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Lewis Museum's 'Growing Up Afro' takes viewers from paper routes to picket lines
Beulah Hinson beams as she holds up a copy of the Afro-American newspaper, the young girl's expression a sharp contrast to the headlines from this particular edition — "205 Die in Dance Hall Fire," "Hubby Made Store Love Nest." The message behind...
Tags: Culture, NAACP, Emmett Till, Artscape, Newspaper and Magazine
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Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum
When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight.
A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...Tags: Laura Bush, Tuskegee Airmen, Annapolis, Wars and Interventions, Arts
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