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Five years is too many
Since 1794, the voters of Charm City have had the same political reality as most: a four-year ritual of choosing the most qualified mayoral and City Council candidates vying for their support, to serve a prescribed term understood by those very voters...
Tags: Primaries, Politics, Minority Groups, DREAM Act, NAACP
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Kinky Friedman talks politics, music, mysteries, culture and Irish martyrs
Kinky Friedman, The Bipolar Tour June 19, Café Nine, 250 State St., New Haven, (203) 789-8281, cafenine.com; June 20, Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St., Collinsville, (860) 693-9762, 41bridgestreet.com The first thing you should know about Kinky...
Tags: Judaism, Politics, Billy Bob Thornton, Ringo Starr, George Carlin
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Editor a vibrant new face for 66-year-old Ebony magazine
Special to the TribuneBefore Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington and before Motown changed music, America had Ebony magazine. In its pages, African-Americans saw intimate images of people who looked...Tags: Brown University, Politics, Science, Science and Technology, Civil Rights
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Detroit Teacher Arrested With Heroin Near Battle Creek
FOX 17 NewsA school teacher and basketball coach from Detroit has been charged with having a large quantity of heroin on I-94 near Battle Creek. Robet Earl Hatchett, Jr. was pulled over on January 26th. Police allegedly found 100 grams of heroin in his SUV,...Tags: High School Sports, Bodies of Water, Police Arrests, Heroin, Rivers
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Chicago athlete found dead in Fla. resort lake
Tribune reporterA college athlete formerly from Hyde Park Academy drowned while staying at a Florida resort with her track teammates from Central State University. Jasmine Crenshaw, 22, was last seen Saturday, swimming with teammates in a lake, her mother, Jackie...Tags: Lake County (Ohio), College Sports, High School Sports, Human Interest, Lake County Sheriff's Office
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Panel to Close 19 Schools Despite Angry Protest
wpix.comAfter a heated, raucous meeting Tuesday that lasted nearly 11 hours, the Panel for Educational Policy finally voted at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday to close 19 New York City schools. Almost 350 speakers addressed the panel at Brooklyn Technical High School in...Tags: WPIX, Education, Brooklyn (New York City), Fort Greene, High Schools
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Frantic Call After 4 Found Dead: 'He Killed Everyone'
Chicago TribuneCHICAGO -- A woman and three children were found shot to death this morning in the bedrooms of a Marquette Park bungalow, part of a crime scene police described as "incomprehensible." Two other people were critically wounded and a suspect - a relative...Tags: Health, Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency, Police Arrests, Hospitals and Clinics
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Kanye West Performs For Chicago Public School Students
(WGN-AM)- Rapper Kanye West rewarded Chicago Public Schools students who have improved their grades this year by performing for them in a free concert Thursday afternoon at the Chicago Theatre.
The show--dubbed the Second Stay in School Benefit Concert--...Tags: Sports, Kyle Orton, Education, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Bears Game Tickets
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Vintage musicals aging well
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer Nathan Gunn, "that she actually likes." The 37-year-old baritone was speaking of tonight's concert version of the pioneering musical "Show Boat," the centerpiece of a season-...Tags: Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma, Florenz Ziegfeld, Monty Python's Spamalot (musical), Lincoln Center
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'Paul Robeson: A Biography' by Martin Bauml Duberman
The life of a black celebrity is perilous enough, but the black celebrity who becomes a spokesperson is asking for pure hell. Not only has the outspokenness of those regarded as radicals gotten them into trouble, but as Gary Giddins' recent book "Satchmo"...Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Labor Legislation, NBC (tv network), Altria Group, Inc., Politics
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Sports, Politics, Jackie Robinson, Armed Forces, Princeton University
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