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'Mad Men' recap, 'The Flood'
At last, more insight into Don Draper's psyche. Now that old Don is back, most of season six's sins have been cyclical, from revisiting adultery and prostitution to a hefty resurgence in Don’s liquor bill. The reboot of old Don has sometimes...Tags: Arts and Culture, Assassinations, Kiernan Shipka, Upper East Side, Culture
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Arthur Machen Jr., Venable law partner
Arthur W. Machen Jr., a retired attorney who was also the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and a legal advocate for the poor, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former Ruxton resident was 92. A well-...
Tags: Securities, Religion and Belief, Carrollton, Anglicanism, Baltimore County
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Road shouldn't be this bumpy
Snow was falling on a crisp December morning in 2005 when the Rev. Billy Kyles stood at the corner of Washington Street and dedicated a three-block stretch of what had been Chapin Street to Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. The ceremony was deeply laden...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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NBA Player's Coming Out A Big Step Among Many
Perhaps this is a Jackie Robinson moment, a historic point in time — but it doesn't feel like one. It feels so inevitable that we had to be reminded that it hadn't already happened. We refer of course to National Basketball Association player...Tags: Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, College Baseball, Sports, Basketball
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Civil Rights leaders describe scene in Danville leading up to Bloody Monday
WDBJ7 ReporterA half-century ago, one moment, and one group's decision to disobey the law, forever changed the history of Danville and the south. It's called Bloody Monday because of the violence that happened that day in the fight for civil rights. The law said...Tags: Prisons, Civil Rights, Salem (Salem, Virginia), Racism, Justice and Rights
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Whitmore Park plaque to remember those who marched on Washington in 1963
She stood with her husband, peanut butter sandwiches and homemade signs in hand, at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, and she was mesmerized as she listened to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech. "His was the speech that...
Tags: Civil Rights, Highland Beach, Minority Groups, Annapolis, Justice and Rights
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Following the faithful example of #42
Contributing WriterThe evils of racism are expressed in the words we speak and the mores we establish. And both emerge from the illusion of superiority. Jackie Robinson, as a black American in the 1940s and 1950s, was thrown into the fire of both when he entered major...Tags: Civil Rights, Arts and Culture, MLB Rookie of the Year Award, Baseball, Culture
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Tribeca 2013: In 'Trials of Muhammad Ali,' a counterpoint to '42'
NEW YORK--When a championship boxer like Muhammad Ali felt disrespected by another fighter, he might have been expected to do what most boxers would: knock his opponent's lights out. But the icon took a different route when faced with a rival he...
Tags: Trials, Film Festivals, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, 42 (movie)
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Chechens in U.S. feel shame, fear over Boston bombing
When Albina Digaeva, a Chechen who was granted political asylum in the United States, first learned that the Boston bombing suspects were from Chechnya, she called the California family who initially put her up when she arrived 15 years ago and...Tags: Immigration, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, University of Maryland, College Park, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith
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Tour civil rights sites around the South
ATLANTA - Key events in 1963, from organized protests in Alabama to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, galvanized the civil rights movement that eventually toppled Jim Crow laws in the South. The 50th anniversary of those events is a...Tags: Civil Rights, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Timeline: The lives of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 2006-2013
ReutersFall 2006 Tamerlan Tsarnaev enrolled as a part-time accounting student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. He took classes for only three semesters - fall 2006, spring 2007 and fall 2008. "He wasn't even close" to getting a degree, said...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Family, Religion and Belief, E.E. Cummings
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North Caucasus to Boston: Rise and fall of the Tsarnaev brothers
Anzor Tsarnaev was tough, a championship boxer back home, and he wanted his oldest boy to be tough too. Rain or shine, like a scene from "Rocky," the wiry Chechen immigrant would ride his bicycle as his son Tamerlan jogged to a Boston-area boxing gym,...
Tags: Personal Service, Music, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Religion and Belief, Prosecution
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