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PETA and the world of dog politics
The Westminster dog show, at Madison Square Garden in New York, hasn't only been about the dogs lately. Last year, PETA protesters invaded the two-day event. As a handler in one of the fantastically dowdy suits that are a Westminster hallmark trotted a...
Tags: American Kennel Club, Values, Euthanasia, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Madison Square Garden
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Ben Cardin: Nickens, others stood against racism, hatred
African-Americans have been part of the American story from the founding of our nation. Men and women of African ancestry have been instrumental in forging the great nation we have today. For too long, racism and prejudice obscured the rich history of...Tags: African-American History Month, Africa, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP, Minority Groups
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Oscar Micheaux: A legend's links
Leroy Collins never says anything about it. He never tells his neighbors he was once a movie star — once. Collins is 89 and lives by himself in the Montgomery Place retirement community in Hyde Park. Scientists who worked on the Manhattan...
Tags: Robert Earl, Roosevelt University, Chicago Loop, Celebrities, Manhattan (New York City)
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Abuse led to killing of neo-Nazi father, judge says
L.A. NOWThe judge who found a 12-year-old Riverside boy criminally responsible for murdering his neo-Nazi father said Monday that years of abuse and neglect clearly had damaged the child’s thought process, but that she could not ignore evidence that... -
10 things you might not know about obscure wars
In President Barack Obama's second inaugural address, he declared that "a decade of war is now ending." But if the past is any indication, there are plenty of military actions ahead. Just last week, the U.S. reached agreement with the African nation of...
Tags: Republic of Ireland, United Nations, Chicago Tribune, Spain, U.S. Supreme Court
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Maurice Merlin paintings and prints on display at Huntington Library
We've heard lately that America is trying to rise up from "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." While economists, political scientists and historians will debate that point, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Maurice Merlin at...
Tags: Libraries, World War II (1939-1945), Fine Artists, Artists, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Couple opens home, hearts
Staff WriterEditor’s Note: A resolution honoring five Valley residents for Black History Month will be presented to the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 26. The Imperial Valley Press will feature each of the five individuals every few days leading...Tags: African-American History Month, Black History
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Lake schools should teach about legal trailblazer Virgil Hawkins
Worshiping a hero is easier from afar. You don't have to hear snippy comments the basketball player makes about short admirers. You don't see acne scars on the supermodel. And, so it is with Virgil Hawkins, a Lake County hero. Monday marks the...
Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), NAACP, Judges, Colleges and Universities, Jacksonville (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
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In his own words
Paul GreenbergEvery year he grows more ceremonial, distant, symbolic, less alive. It is the fate of heroes. Their pictures are relegated to banners, their words become clichés, their very names become streets and boulevards instead of a living presence. Icons....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Political Dissent, Christianity, Baptist, U.S. Supreme Court
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Closing of the American mind
WASHINGTON -- In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Park Slope, Colleges and Universities, University of Oklahoma, Saudi Arabia
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COLUMN: American minds are closing
Washington Post Writers GroupIn 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration --...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Washington Post, Park Slope, Washington, DC, Colleges and Universities
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'Never give up The Dream'
South Bend TribuneEvery year around Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January, we start hearing about King’s best-known speech, delivered during the 1963 March on Washington. We all know and have heard many times the vision of racial equality so beautifully expressed...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Day, Prisons, Racism
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