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Historical Society offers glimpse of African Americans during Reconstruction
Imagine a life in which you cannot read or write, where you sign your name with an X to vote, exchange money or buy land.
This was the reality for many African Americans in Maryland before and during Reconstruction, the period of readjustment from 1856...Tags: Family, Slavery, Elections, Reconstruction
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A book too embarrassing to read
A story for Black History Month.
Bryan Stevenson is director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Ala.-based organization he founded in 1989 to provide legal representation for the indigent and incarcerated. The EJI (www.eji.org) doesn't charge...Tags: Slavery, Pulitzer Prize Awards, World War II (1939-1945), Prisons, Entertainment Events
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Gay marriage: A tale of two states
The storylines were similar: A divided state legislature grapples with the emotional question of whether to allow same-sex couples to marry.
But several plot twists — an ambitious Democratic governor as the main character, a multimillion-dollar...Tags: Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Montgomery County (Maryland), Parties and Movements
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Historic film details days at the beach for African-Americans
A 70-year-old film that captures annual summertime excursions to Carr's Beach in Annapolis will debut at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Walbrook Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 2302 W. North Ave. The original footage, found on E-Bay and made into a...Tags: Minority Groups, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Annapolis, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Progress in Hepatitis C research
Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Human Body, Chemicals, Diseases and Illnesses
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Fracking: Don't let fear hold us back
Maryland's 7.2 percent unemployment rate is below the national average but still too high. Families need help. Aging roads, sewer systems and other infrastructure need repair. Revenue projections for 2012 and beyond will not cover these programs, along...Tags: Minority Groups, Home Heating, Environmental Politics, Labor Markets, Business
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Head of the Class: Owings Mills residents earn degrees
Ryan Michael Sullivan, of Owings Mills, graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Clemson University, S.C. Aug. 13. Churchill Davenport Jr, of Owings Mills, majoring in environmental science at Davis & Elkins College in...Tags: Clemson University, Minority Groups, Science, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes
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Commission a fig leaf for exec's aim to control board
I am deeply concerned about the process being used to alter the county school board. Our county executive says he does not like the way the school board is acting and wants to change the way the school board is constituted. To validate his viewpoint,...Tags: Minority Groups, PTA
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Four from Notre Dame Prep are National Merit semifinalists
Notre Dame Preparatory School has announced that four seniors have been recognized as National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists. They are: Mary Katherine Helm, Emily Horton, Laura Paquin and Brogan Sheehey. School officials said this is the...Tags: Minority Groups, The National (music group), Dance, Public Schools, George Washington Carver
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O'Malley's map easily wins House approval
A new political map aimed at adding a seventh Democrat to the state's congressional delegation is expected to be sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley Thursday for his signature.
The plan won approval in the Maryland House of Delegates on Wednesday after five...Tags: Regional Authority, Montgomery County (Maryland), Executive Branch, Maryland General Assembly, Michael E. Busch
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Iowa group to fund suit against Maryland's congressional map
An Iowa-based foundation is financing a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Maryland's new congressional map on the grounds that it unconstitutionally splits minority communities. Christopher Rants, a Republican former speaker of the Iowa House who...Tags: Minority Groups, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Montgomery County (Maryland), Parties and Movements
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