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Morgan student charged in dismemberment of man left disturbing online trail
Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student, has been charged in the killing and dismemberment in Harford County of a 37-year-old man, and while not much was immediately known about the circumstances of the crime, Kinyua's online trail...
Tags: Students, Facebook, Cheng Yu-tung, Colleges and Universities, Trials
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Baltimore Sun in the news
There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them. Nonetheless,...
Tags: Meg Ryan, Gene Kelly, Newspaper and Magazine, World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment Events
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Colorful closing arguments in election fraud trial of Ehrlich consultant
Political consultant Julius Henson's attorney used a stack of fake oversized money, invoked slavery and called prosecutors' election fraud case against his client a "bunch of bull-honky" during his closing argument Wednesday afternoon. Using props,...Tags: Prosecution, Executive Branch, Parties and Movements, FBI, Lawyers
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Girls, boys are sold on the streets within 48 hours of running away
It's low risk and high yield, picking up girls at the mall or at the bus stop who had words with their parents before storming out of the house. An outreached hand offers to help. "Poor thing," says the friendly girl, "let me buy you something to eat."...Tags: Sex Crimes, United Nations, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Howard County, Prostitution
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A night different from all other nights at Center Stage
The three Jewish characters preparing for a Passover Seder spend a night different from all other nights in "The Whipping Man," and Matthew Lopez's drama is also an unusual night for the audience at Center Stage. Although the three men adhere to the...Tags: Judaism, Wars and Interventions, Medical Procedures and Tests, Passover Seder, Theft
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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: African Americans, Family, Elections, Reconstruction
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A whiter shade of privilege
I'm here to explain why George Zimmerman is white. This seems necessary given the confusion and anger with which some readers responded to my use of that word last week in this space to describe the man who shot an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon...
Tags: NAACP, Minority Groups, Trayvon Martin, Conan O'Brien, Judaism
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Center Stage's Kwame Kwei-Armah is finally putting his vision on stage
Kwame Kwei-Armah is doing his utmost to speed up the transitions. Center Stage's new artistic director strides back and forth along the stage where the troupe's production of "The Whipping Man" is being rehearsed, scrutinizing the set from all angles....
Tags: Music, United Kingdom, BBC, Judaism, Celebrities
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Elizabeth Catlett blended art, social goals
Baltimore Sun reporterOne of Elizabeth Catlett's linotypes could horrify viewers by depicting the aftermath of a lynching, the rope around the victim's neck held taut by the murderers' boots. And in the next room, a statue by Catlett of a mother and child would flood viewers...Tags: Howard University, Minority Groups, Martin Luther King Jr., Fine Artists, Museums
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Emancipation Day provides tax filing delay
Thanks to a quirk in this year's income tax filing deadline, many Americans are getting a lesson in Civil War history today. The IRS pushed back the filing deadline because April 15 landed on Sunday and today is Emancipation Day, which marks the...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Abraham Lincoln, Wars and Interventions, U.S. House of Representatives
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Datebook
Sunday, Feb. 26 Genealogy Dwight Parker will give a presentation "Tracing your Slave Ancestors" at 3 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4100 St. Johns Lane in Ellicott City. Parker will talk about how he researched his ancestors...Tags: Howard County, William Shakespeare, Agriculture, Concerts, Georgetown
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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: African Americans, Pulitzer Prize Awards, World War II (1939-1945), Prisons, Entertainment Events
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