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Season recap: Alvin Hill
The Baltimore SunNic Vasilchek knew that the fortunes of his Luella (Ga.) High football team were intimately tied to cornerback Alvin Hill. With that in mind, the Lions coach decided to play the Maryland commitment sparingly on offense and not at all on special teams,...Tags: Maryland Terrapins, Football, College Sports
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Md. teacher of the year focuses on connections with students
Joshua Parker fell in love in 10th grade, discovering the power of words when his English teacher put a volume of Langston Hughes in his hands.
He describes it as a moment so profound that it was like hearing chords of music for the first time.
Bright...Tags: Bowie, Dundalk, Language, Teachers, Students
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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, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Arts, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey), African Americans
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Impossible Hair
Sun ReporterHometown: Silver Spring Current members: Joe Ryan, vocals, guitar; Jim Glass, vocals, guitar; Kari Cohen, bass; Sammy "The Kid" Ponzar, drums Founded in: 2005 Style: indie rock Influenced by: the Beatles, Guided by Voices, Thomas Dolby, Dylan Thomas,...Tags: Oranges, Thomas Dolby, Dylan Thomas
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Park Heights
Special to baltimoresun.comOne of the long-time subjects of several urban renewal projects is Park Heights, situated in the northwest corner of the city. The area most famously known for that big horse race every year and a lot of synagogues is now, after years of strife and...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Martin Luther King Jr., Hospitals and Clinics, Triple Crown, Colleges and Universities
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2001 was prolific for Marylanders
Special To The SunAmid the tumults of 2001, this region's authors and publishers have stayed by their keyboards and their cash-flow charts, producing new books for the general reader. Here, accordingly, is the annual try at a census of such works, by Marylanders or about...Tags: Arts, Bill Hall, Armed Forces, Fishing, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Carl Clark: photographer with a purpose
DRAWING UPON genius and despair, Carl Clark brings hope to his people, his neighborhood and to himself. At the corner of Linden Avenue and Ducatel Street -- once called Dodge City in honor of the many shootings there -- they call him The Picture Man. He...Tags: Arts, Armed Forces, Labor Legislation, Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups
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Arena Players ready for next act
Special to SunSpotIn 1953, nine African-Americans gathered in a Northwest Baltimore living room to discuss offering quality theater to the community. Their goal seemed simple. "We just wanted to do plays," said Ed Terry, the company's associate artistic director who...Tags: Arts, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Charles S Dutton, Theater, African Americans
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University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sing it loud, an America like no Other
Leonard PittsI, too, sing America. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a nation...Tags: The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, United States Census Bureau
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Sing it loud, an America like no Other
I, too, sing America. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a nation...
Tags: The New York Times, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Elections, Barack Obama
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Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
Jacket CopyEsquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style....
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