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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: Emmett Till, Ceremonies, Voting, Culture, Druid Hill
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Robocall incident should spur changes
In the weeks leading up to the Maryland gubernatorial election in 2006, the campaign of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.commissioned and distributed "voter guides" which were, in fact, filled with misinformation. The leaflets falsely implied that Mr....Tags: Michael Steele, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Elections
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Trayvon Martin's mother to speak at Baltimore mega-church Sunday
The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will speak Sunday at a Baltimore mega-church about how she's coping with her son's death, according to the church's pastor.
Sybrina Fulton's appearance at Empowerment Temple Church in Northwest...Tags: Washington, DC, NAACP, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Civil Rights
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Cardin picks up ministers endorsement
Sen. Ben Cardin won the support of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance on Monday in his bid for a second term, the latest in a series of endorsements the Democrat hopes will secure his support with black voters in the April primary election....Tags: Michael Steele, Annapolis, Barack Obama, Rushern Baker, Executive Branch
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State Sen. Muse to challenge Cardin for Senate
A Prince George's County state legislator, C. Anthony Muse, announced Thursday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maryland this year, challenging Sen. Ben Cardin's bid for a second term.
Muse, an African-American pastor...Tags: Punishment, U.S. Senate, Punishment, Annapolis, Prince George's County
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Mfume endorses Cardin
Kweisi Mfume, the former Maryland congressman and NAACP leader, endorsed Sen. Ben Cardin on Friday for a second term, backing his one-time rival. Mfume is the latest prominent black leader in the state to announce support for Cardin, who lost Baltimore...Tags: NAACP, Benjamin L. Cardin, Prince George's County, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Rushern Baker
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1908 Illinois race riot was impetus behind founding of the NAACP
When an African-American was accused of raping a white woman and another of murdering a white locomotive engineer, Springfield, Ill., exploded into a race riot on the evening of Aug. 14, 1908. The mob grew furious when they learned that the two men had...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Druid Hill, Springfield, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), U.S. Supreme Court
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Rawlings-Blake and Dixon trade shots
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her predecessor Sheila Dixon have shared a lifetime of politics together. Dixon became the first African-American woman elected City Council president and then mayor. Rawlings-Blake followed in her footsteps.
For them, the...Tags: African Americans, NAACP, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Sheila Dixon, Elections
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Familiar face makes role her own
She has been Baltimore's mayor for nearly 20 months already, thrust into office to become a familiar if often unreadable face at the helm of a city beset by crime, budgetary woes and even Mother Nature.
But with her victory in the Democratic primary...Tags: Local Elections, Annapolis, Sheila Dixon, Executive Branch, Bill Henry
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After 'The Wire,' a return to reality
Donnie Andrews' life is one that David Simon and Ed Burns would have had to invent if he hadn't already lived it.
"I am the real Omar," Andrews tells me by way of introduction, referring to how he was the inspiration for the ruthless yet moral stickup...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Prosecution, Colleges and Universities, The New York Times, David Simon
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Mike Schaefer, no relation to William Donald, makes claim to estate
A guy by the name of Mike Schaefer has filed a claim stating that he should get $28,000 from William Donald Schaefer’s estate.
Mike Schaefer, a Baltimore landlord, is no relation to the late mayor, governor and comptroller, though he openly...Tags: U.S. Senate, William Donald Schaefer, Regional Authority
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Funeral marks Schaefer's 'extraordinary life'
At a memorial service that celebrated both his landscape-altering legacy and his big-hearted if crusty-shelled persona, the William Donald Schaefer nation gathered one last time on Wednesday — friends and one-time foes alike, Maryland politicos past...Tags: Michael Steele, William H. Keeler, Robert Frost, James T. Smith, Jr., Steny Hoyer
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