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Trayvon Martin case: Florida's license to kill
Nearly a month after an unarmed black teenager was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain, police in Sanford, Fla., have yet to make an arrest. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was returning from a convenience store near the house of his father'...Tags: Racism, Trayvon Martin, Minority Groups, Shootings, Criminal Laws
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Baltimore showing solidarity with slain Fla. teen
Today marks one month since Trayvon Martin's death, and thousands of people are expected to descend on the small Florida city where the youth was slain by a neighborhood watch volunteer, including an NFL star and a prominent church leader from Baltimore....Tags: Ray Lewis, Racism, Civil Rights, Baptist, Howard University
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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: Andres Alonso, Civil Rights, Racism, Kenneth N. Oliver, Howard University
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'Our blacks' vs. 'their blacks'? Why conservatives shouldn't talk about race
Do you think it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter's blacks?
That is how Coulter put it on Fox "News" while defending Herman Cain against sexual harassment charges that threatened to engulf his campaign last...Tags: Civil Rights, Feminism, Clarence Thomas, Minority Groups, Prisons
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Review: Emmylou Harris at Pier Six Pavilion July 26
The Baltimore SunEmmylou Harris performed at Pier Six Pavilion Tuesday night. Baltimore Diner's Richard Gorelick, a regular Harris, reviews the show. Emmylou Harris, touring with her Red Dirt Boys in support of "Hard Bargain," her first studio album in three years,...Tags: Emmylou Harris
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Ten years after losing his fiancee, Columbia man on his way to healing
John Milton Wesley had a dream about 10 years ago that he was shopping with his fiancee, Sarah Clark, when she walked into a dressing room to try on clothes and never came out. "I woke up sad and agitated ... almost in tears," Wesley recalled. Three...Tags: Arts, American Airlines, Inc., September 11, 2001 Attacks, Minority Groups, Murder
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Freedom Ride revisited: Looking forward, but seeing the past in a mirror
We are on the 2011 Student Freedom Riders bus rolling toward Augusta, Ga., watching "The Murder of Emmett Till," a PBS documentary on the savage 1955 lynching of a black boy in the nothing town of Money, Miss. On the old newsreel footage, white person...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Freedom Riders (movie), Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups, Des Moines (Polk, Iowa)
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Celebration, tears greet Obama's victory across U.S.
The Associated PressCrowds danced in the streets, wept, lifted their voices in prayer and brought traffic to a standstill. From the nation's capital to Atlanta to Los Angeles, Americans celebrated Barack Obama's victory and marveled that they lived to see the day that a...Tags: John McCain, Civil Rights, Grant Park, U.S. Presidential Election Results (2008), Lehigh Valley Weather
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Charges against four defendants dropped in Pasadena teen's death
Sun StaffSaying the cases had "no reasonable hope of success," Anne Arundel County's chief prosecutor dropped manslaughter and other charges yesterday against four young white men accused in the death of a black Pasadena teenager in a brawl last summer. State's...Tags: Racism, Assault, Defendants, Murder, Gun Control
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A last push for justice in civil rights-era killings
Sun National StaffThe two events each seem to hold new promise of unmasking old ghosts. In Chicago, the FBI exhumed the body of Emmett Till last month in a search for clues about the 14-year-old black youth's brutal 1955 beating death. In Mississippi, reputed Ku Klux Klan...Tags: Civil Rights, Bombings, Charles Moore, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Birmingham
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Two cases show how vast our racial divide remains
HOW DID Marylanders end up with two poignant moments in race relations in just one week? Well, it can't be because we're lucky, because one of those moments involves the death of Noah Jamahl Jones, a black teenager who died last year after a melee...Tags: Racism, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Health and Safety at School, Minority Groups
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Rapping is a way for David Banner to reflect on roots
Sun Pop Music CriticThat's not an easy place to discuss. It harbors many ghosts, and the pain from certain events that took place there hasn't necessarily lessened with time. Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the Union, with low employment, poor schools, shabby...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Colleges and Universities, Busta Rhymes, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi)
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