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"Between the World and Me" concludes that racism in America is a systematic attempt to destroy black bodies -
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- I once told a female friend about a program I created called Equations of Peace aimed at helping girls in conflict areas study math. My friend thought that I didn't know enough to create such a program. When I defended my decision, she started to cry. I've never seen a man cry who wasn't cradling his dead son.
- Author Sam Kean discusses his book "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" at the Ivy Bookshop
- Jerome F. "Jerry" Esterson, a colorful photographer whose significant work entertained Baltimoreans for nearly 60 years, died May 28 at his Pikesville home from complications of an infection. He was 88.
- How can Baltimore prosper? By unleashing its human capital. Corporations can help.
- Our view: By failing to acknowledge a barbaric ritual associated with an African art exhibit, the Baltimore Museum of Art fails visitors
- The Medical Innovation Act would give the NIH a funding boost by forcing large pharmaceutical companies that have committed wrongdoing to support the NIH. The bill would ask these companies to pay a relatively small additional sum into NIH research after they enter into settlement agreements with the government.
- It's Latin night on "Dancing With The Stars," which means lots of bikini tops and feathers. And for Suzanne Somers, a Carmen Miranda outfit. Of course.
- There's a certain irony in the fact that the American president who won the office vowing to end the two wars he inherited finds himself after six years as much a wartime president as the man he succeeded.
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- When Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in December 1955, she would go down in history as the symbolic "mother" of the Civil Rights Movement.
- President Obama's latest war strategy makes one wonder: Is another Woodrow Wilson in the Oval Office debating with himself about how to meet the existential threat that faces him?
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- Cal Thomas pays tribute to Winston Churchill -- "a man for all time" -- on the 50th anniversary of his death.
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- Theater groups, of course, schedule and plan their productions months, sometimes years, in advance of opening night. And so, with the tragic events this past week in France, it is perhaps a twist of irony that two local groups raise the curtain on 2015 with shows that pay homage to French satire and comedy.
- Having been overrun by the Republican offense just weeks ago in the congressional elections, Mr. Obama has come back and picked up a lot of yardage since.
- I have spent the semester teaching about Ferguson in my classroom. My students wanted to know what they could do to be a part of the change that they believed was happening around the country. I told them they should focus on changing themselves and their communities.
- U.S. should dump talk of 'equivalence' in talks over jailed contractor in Cuba
- Marita W. Watts, a retired longtime Harford County public schools educator who was a senior citizen and hospital volunteer, died Nov. 19 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air of heart failure. She was 88.
- Nobel laureate Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins win Breakthrough Prize for showing the expansion of the universe is accelerating
- The head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, visiting Baltimore on Tuesday, asked nursing students at Johns Hopkins to consider careers with the VA — part of a larger plan to combat the long wait times that have plagued the health care system..
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- Roland Park Country School salutes International Day of the Girl
- Has President Obama undergone a change of heart?
- Newspaper has been overly critical of NFL team during Rice scandal while ignoring worse events involving the Obama administration
- In Mr. Obama's 2009 speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, he made a defense of the concept of the just war, which he can reasonably argue he has decided to enter on the grounds of long-range self-defense against this newly sprouting terrorist offshoot of al-Qaida. It now looms as the greatest challenge of his presidency, and to a positive legacy.
