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About 30 Catholics shivered in the chilly afternoon air as they prayed the rosary on the sidewalk in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Sunday. - Maryland needs a new paradigm to address the chronic under employment of Hispanics and a demonstrated will and commitment to diversify our government workforce from our state leaders.
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- The civil rights movement needed both King and the Panthers
- Perra S. Bell, a former Towson University history teacher who was a lifelong crusader for civil rights, died Sept. 26 at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Naples, Fla., of complications of a fractured hip. She was 95.
- Republican Rep. Andy Harris' isolation from the rest of the Maryland congressional delegation (all Democrats) is easy to see when it comes to bills that the Human Rights Campaign deemed particularly relevant to LGBT people's lives.
- The Republican contender for Maryland¿s lieutenant governor on Friday scorned the decision to bar a Baltimore civil rights icon from an event at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture.
- It's about pomp but also power -- not only to become a YouTube sensation or niche-culture legend, but to provide a family to those without one and to drive HIV awareness in a youth demographic identified by city health workers as being particularly vulnerable to infection. This is the vogue ball scene in Baltimore, 2014.
- The director of Baltimore's African-American history museum on Thursday defended his decision to bar Dr. Helena Hicks, an elderly civil rights leader, from an event marking the 50th anniversary of landmark legislation.
- The Lewis Museum's clumsy handling of a civil rights icon created exactly the sort of controversy it doesn't need
- Dr. Helena Hicks, an elderly icon of Baltimore's early civil rights movement, was denied entrance to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American History last week after questioning its decision to put a convicted murderer on a discussion panel about the history of the struggle for racial equality.
- Among many other important awareness opportunities, October is also National Bullying Prevention Month. As most can agree, bullying is a serious problem, one that is oftentimes not given the weight it deserves.
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- The nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization has listed U.S. Rep. Andy Harris -- a Baltimore County Republican -- among the nation's "most anti-equality members of Congress."
- In deep blue Maryland, it's the white Republican running for governor who has a direct message for black voters. Larry Hogan argues his job-creating economic policies are just what's needed to address the community's high jobless rate. Democrat Anthony Brown studiously avoids talking about minority voters, saying his policies are designed to make life better for everyone.
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- The state's gubernatorial candidates should pledge to choose women for half of their cabinet and executive office appointments.
- As attorney general, Eric Holder will be remembered as a champion of civil rights in the mold of Robert F. Kennedy
- The U.S. Supreme Court is meeting on Monday for the first time since June, and could make a decision to hear a new same-sex marriage case.
- Harry potter actress proposes an opportunity to reset the dialogue between -- and about -- the genders.
- The pent-up frustration in Baltimore's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community with the center founded decades ago to serve their needs was on full display Tuesday night, when several local activists grilled a candidate for the center's open executive director position.
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- President Obama's plan for defeating the Islamic State will require a sustained commitment on the part of the U.S. and its allies
- Equality Maryland, the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organization, has announced Gov. Martin O'Malley and his record on LGBT rights will be the toast of the group's annual "Signature Brunch" in November.
- The former beverage manager at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore is suing the hotel¿s operator for wrongful or abusive discharge, harassment, gender discrimination and for creating a hostile work environment. In the suit, Tiffany Dawn Cianci claims she was harassed repeatedly by her superiors and ultimately terminated after refusing to sell alcohol that she believed was acquired outside of Maryland law. She also cites what the suit called ¿humiliating¿ practices related to pumping breast milk for her infant.
- A federal judge's decision upholding Louisiana's ban on gay marriage is an outlier but an instructive one as the issue heads to the Supreme Court.
- The more important the Internet becomes, the more critical it is that this digital public square be open to all.
- Though our country has come a long way in the past five decades, no one dare say the stain of racism has been eradicated from the fabric of our society.
- The NFL has worked on several fronts to draw more female fans: Holding special stadium events for women, injecting football themes into shows such as "The Biggest Loser" and expanding lines of merchandise to include household goods such as cheese boards and stemless wine glasses.
- Looks like Baltimore's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has a big, flashy, deep-pocketed new ally in town in the Horseshoe Casino on Russell Street, which opened Tuesday.
- Do you need to be an angel not to deserve getting shot while unarmed, asks Leonard Pitts.
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- Captain Ron Johnson's job is to restore order to Ferguson, Mo., but his standpoint for discharging that duty is understanding and empathy. Law enforcement bodies nationwide ought to be thinking about how to clone him.
- McDaniel College has prepared a program of events for the fall semester that includes a mixture of musical performances, a variety of cultural experiences and several art exhibits. The first event on the list, an art exhibit by Baltimore artist, Rene Trevino, is set to begin Aug. 28.
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- Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.
- It was perhaps Robin Williams' way of taking up queer characters with just the right balance of warmth and pitch-perfect irreverence that made the LGBT community love him most.
