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Va. man removes pro-immigrant sign from property
A large pro-immigrant billboard in Old Town Manassas is being dismantled before a court hearing could have forced a man to remove it from his property. The 12-by-40-foot homemade sign was built on Guadencio Fernandez's property in a residential area...Tags: Prince William, Washington Post Company, Demographics, Illegal Immigrants, Censorship
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Preserving black history in an updated space
When retired teacher Wylene Burch started the Howard County Center of African American Culture in 1987, her vision was to preserve the stories of black county residents from the past and present. Now Burch, along with a team of staff members and...Tags: Minority Groups, Charity, History, Ellicott City, Family
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Books for fall
STAFF WRITERWith a change in the seasons comes a change in literary focus. In the fall, readers tend to put away their summer fluff in favor of more weighty works. Here are 10 to watch for this fall. The Hero (Doubleday, Oct., $26) by Jon Krakauer The accomplished...Tags: History, Graydon Carter, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono
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Ads For Slaves Inspire Exhibit
Cora Marshall, chairwoman of the CCSU art department, used details in ads for runaway slaves to paint images that are on display in the Downtown Gallery in New Britain. Page B3Tags: New Britain, Central Connecticut State University
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Founding Father's DNA may be key to woman's past
The Washington PostIt's been four years since Bettye Kearse set out to prove a story that has been handed down through generations of her family: that she, an African-American, is a direct descendant of Founding Father James Madison. But after a prolonged attempt to...Tags: Montpelier, History, Thomas Jefferson, Biotechnology Industry, National Government
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Ads For Runaway Slaves Inspire Artist's Exhibit
Courant Staff Writer— Cora Marshall was doing research at the Library of Congress when she saw the advertisements offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves. The ads, which ran in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the early 1800s, inspired Marshall,...Tags: Minority Groups, New Britain, Central Connecticut State University, National or Ethnic Minorities, Missing Persons
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Voodoo and New Orleans: Two cultures of permeable boundaries
New York Times News ServiceNEW ORLEANS—On a sweltering morning this city's humidity turns visible in rivulets of sweat on the faces of the living. But as I stand in New Orleans' oldest extant cemetery, it is evident that even the dead can't escape it. Tombs here in St. Louis...Tags: Natural Disasters, Dance, Death and Dying, Disasters, Culture
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Texas delegate waited a lifetime for Obama's moment
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWho can say for certain where the tears came from? There were the days picking cotton as a girl, her legs scratched and bleeding from the plants' sharp spurs. There were the restaurants that wouldn't take her order, the credit union that wouldn't accept...Tags: The White House, Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Bearing witness to MLK's 'Dream,' Obama's reality
olivia.winslow@newsday.comOn Aug. 28, 1963, Bishop R.W. Harris, prelate of Grace Cathedral in Uniondale, was 20 years old and living in East Harlem when he boarded an NAACP bus bound for the Washington Mall to hear what became the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a...Tags: NAACP, East Harlem, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Government
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It's been a long walk to Denver for African-Americans
Special to the sentinelTonight in Denver, Sen. Barack Obama, who is biracial with an African father and a white American mother, will receive the Democratic nomination for president of the United States before a crowd of 75,000 and an audience that stretches around the world....Tags: NAACP, Barack Obama, Charlie Crist, Parliament, National Government
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Burial ground of slaves to become a memorial
Associated Press WriterA portion of a centuries-old burial ground for slaves and freed blacks that now lies beneath a parking lot will be preserved and recognized as part of the city's effort to confront its slave-trading history. The 50-by-250-foot section of the former...Tags: Road Transportation, Civil Unrest, James Monroe, Rebellions, Transportation
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Historic breakthroughs
Milestones for blacks in the U.S. Forty-five years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois will formally accept his party's nomination for president. Here are some key landmarks...Tags: Heads of State, Barack Obama, National Government, Political Candidates, Frederick Douglass
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