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Noose delivered to Orlando Commissioner Lynum's office
Sentinel Staff WriterSomeone sent a noose to Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum, and police are investigating it as a threat. The small rope noose, delivered to Lynum's City Hall office Friday, was turned over to the Orlando Police Department. The anonymous package carried...Tags: Assault, Patty Sheehan
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A lynching yields a musical love story
Charged with raping and murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913 Atlanta, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew, was convicted in a kangaroo trial that travestied due process. The case divided the nation and prompted the outgoing governor to commute Frank's...Tags: Minority Groups, Punishment, Migration, NoHo, San Marino
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UMDNJ probing extent of 'KKK' hazing incident
The president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey says the school is looking into whether more people were involved in an apparent racist hazing incident. Three paramedics were fired last week after cell phone camera images...Tags: National Government, Government, Medicine, Colleges and Universities
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Barack Obama myths revisited
The Swampby James Oliphant While the punditocracy continues to debate whether The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama and their "terrorist fist-bump" was satirical or inflammatory, it's worth digging down and looking at how myths about the...Tags: Barack Obama, Political Candidates, Woody Allen, Elections
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Inmigrante mexicano protesta con "muro de la libertad"
PRENSA ASOCIADAEn el pintoresco vecindario de Manassas con antiguas casas de ladrillos rojos, un enorme cartel recibe a los turistas y viajeros suburbanos, no precisamente instalado por la Cámara de Comercio local. "El CPW y Manassas, capital nacional de la...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Prince William, Manassas (Manassas, Virginia)
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IUPUI says sorry to janitor scolded for KKK book
Associated Press WriterA university has apologized to a janitor accused of racial harassment for reading a historical book about the Ku Klux Klan on his break -- months after the incident raised hackles among civil liberties groups. Indiana University-Purdue University...Tags: Minority Groups, Employees, Colleges and Universities, Purdue University, Unions
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NJ EMS workers fired over alleged racist hazing
Associated Press WriterThree EMS workers have been fired by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey over an alleged racist hazing incident. The university's president said Friday that the three were terminated after cell phone camera images surfaced of...Tags: Medical Services, Employees, Emergency Planning, Medical Staff, Medicine
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FBI, Ga. authorities probe unsolved 1946 lynchings
Associated PressFederal and state agents swarmed over the backyard of a modest white house in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects in the unsolved lynchings of four people in 1946. Agents from the FBI and Georgia...Tags: Tyrone Brooks, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Harry S Truman, Prosecution, Murder
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Sign criticizes localities for immigration policy
The Washington PostIn Manassas's quaint, red-brick Old Town neighborhood, a giant billboard greets visiting tourists and commuters, but it was not put there by the city or Chamber of Commerce. "PWC and Manassas the National Capital of Intolerance," it declares, in hand-...Tags: Minority Groups, Immigration, Migration, Labor Legislation, Censorship
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'Living legend' shares tales of friend, author Hurston
Sentinel Staff WriterThe scene looks like the most pleasant classroom you can image, with a big window overlooking Lake Virginia on the Rollins College campus, all clipped green lawns and Mediterranean charm. But the man talking in quiet Southern-accented tones to the...Tags: Culture, Arlo Guthrie, Human Rights, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando
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