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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: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Shomrim, Martin O'Malley, David Simon, Civil Rights
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Hopkins students, professors discuss fallout from Trayvon Martin case
Johns Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly sees the Trayvon Martin case in terms far broader than the details of how the Florida teenager was shot and killed at the end of February.
Look at the attempts by some to dismiss race as a potential...Tags: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Students, Health and Safety at School, Johns Hopkins University
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Touré on the role of race in a 'post-black' culture
A man with salt-and-pepper hair stood recently in front of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, glaring at an oversized poster promoting a reading Monday night by the cultural critic Touré from his new book, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
"Post-blackness?"...Tags: The New York Times, Jesse Jackson, Tony Awards, Book, Entertainment Events
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Braving real world to see Phelps' accident in person
The call about Michael Phelps' car accident on Calvert Street crackled over the newsroom police radio as I was about to leave work Thursday night. My first thought was, when I get home, I'll have to go online and see what happened. But then, a moment...Tags: Mount Vernon, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Medical Research, Perez Hilton
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Police accused of profiling in Fein incident
Baltimore Sun reportersThe agent for a Baltimore Ravens rookie linebacker said his client was targeted by police at the Inner Harbor because he is black, a claim that has sparked debate over racial profiling as police step up enforcement there in the wake of a recent shooting....Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Pat Tillman, Weather Reports, Dining and Drinking, Racism
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At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: Ghana, Arts, Langston Hughes, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey), African Americans
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Where we live fuels a divide
Sun StaffThere was a time when Walter Sondheim Jr. held fast to the notion that racially desegregated schools would give way to a racially integrated society. That was 1954. He admits now that he "should have known better." Sondheim was president of the Baltimore...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Housing Industry, Discrimination, African Americans, Inner Harbor
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Friday’s Highlights: 'Nikita' on KTLA
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Finding your roots
"Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr." is another of the Harvard professor's wonderful television series for PBS. This is "must-see TV" and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted about how some of us came to be what...Tags: Chris Rock, Ralph Edwards, Republican Party, Slavery, Condoleezza Rice
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Friday’s Highlights: ‘In Plain Sight’ on USA
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Friday's TV highlights
SERIES Nikita: Percy (Xander Berkeley) releases a man (Rick Ravanello) whom Nikita (Maggie Q) captured and sent to prison years ago in this new episode (8 p.m. KTLA). The Finder: A partial voice mail message is all that Walter (Geoff Stults) has to work...Tags: The Finder (tv program), Jensen Ackles, Baltimore Orioles, Xander Berkeley, CMT (tv network)
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When administrations implode
Victor Davis HansonAdministration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos takes hold, whether self-induced or as a result of an outside crisis. Vietnam had effectively destroyed Lyndon Johnson by 1967. Watergate...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Warren Buffett, Monica Lewinsky, Republican Party, George H.W. Bush
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