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Alonzo P. Hairston, a retired Baltimore attorney who had been one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died Jan. 30 of a blood clot at ManorCare Health Services in Overland Park, Kansas. He was 94. - Two of those DOTAs, one support staffer and one pilot, visited Harford County Thursday afternoon to speak to an audience of about 100 people gathered at the Richlin Ballroom in Edgewood
- Jeffrey Kent's provocative art challenges anti-gay marriage attitudes in black community
- Jeffrey Kent's provocative art challenges anti-gay marriage attitudes in black community
- For 33 years, James Dixon served the Baltimore Police Department as a black officer in an era of widespread racial prejudice. Police posts were segregated and blacks were not allowed in patrol cars
- Baltimore County Tuskegee Airmen Lemuel Lewie and Cyril Byron will serve as grand marshals of the Towson Fourth of July Parade.
- Lifelong Catonsville resident William Foreman will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his role as one of the nation's first black Marines.
- Towson's Fourth of July parade is scheduled for the morning of July 4, beginning at 10:30 a.m. But the kickoff of festivities — at least for the past 14 years — has been the bike rush, which will gather at 9 a.m. before the start of the parade.
- Seven decades after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the last whites-only branch of the military to accept African-Americans, the first black Marines are being recognized for their service.
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- Cecil O. Byron and Lemuel A. Lewie are telling story of courage during the battles of World War II and the home front struggles for equality in their own country.
- When the country's largest African American museum opens on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., people and places from Maryland will get a healthy share of the limelight.
- Young participants search for five posters in 25,000-square-foot facility in Arbutus.
- Day of "infamy" changed many lives during World War II
- A children's novel is helping Howard County promote healthy lifestyles for youth. "The Adventures of M. T. Pitt" shines a light on an imaginative young boy, whose expanding girth makes him a target for the school bully.
- Harts Morrison Brown, a retired management consultant who had been a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died June 24 of lung cancer.
- Harts Morrison Brown, a retired management consultant who had been a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died June 24 of lung cancer.
