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Soulful Symphony's 'Evolution'
After a hiatus of more than a year, Soulful Symphony re-emerged last month to perform for a packed house at the Hippodrome Theatre, inaugurating a concert series that continues there Friday night.
Thanks to support from the recently launched Hippodrome...Tags: Hippodrome Theatre, Concerts, Jacob Lawrence, Michael Jackson, African-American History Month
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Hattie McDaniel's Legacy
Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award, won for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Today, a controversy exists over the whereabouts of the McDaniel Oscar. In his 1990...Tags: The Washington Post, George Washington University, Civil Rights, Celebrities, Crime, Law and Justice
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Laurel celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Annual Sing for King concert features local soloists The city of Laurel and the Laurel Clergy Association will present the fifth annual Sing for King celebration on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 15000 First Baptist Lane (off Cherry...Tags: Martin Luther King Day, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Howard Community College, Human Interest
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Bruce Delbert Royster, accountant
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday for Bruce Delbert Royster Sr., a certified public accountant who was the city's first homicide victim of 2012, at City Temple Baptist Church, 317 Dolphin St. Mr. Royster, who had been shot several times, was...Tags: Consultancy Service, Coppin State University, Edgewood, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
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Police, family seek help in solving killing of accountant, fraternity founder
Baltimore Police today sent out the above flier, hoping to generate tips in the killing of 62-year-old Bruce Royster, the city's first homicide victim of 2012. Little has been said by police about the case, but in today's Sun, Frederick Rasmussen penned...Tags: Coppin State University, Colleges and Universities, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Baltimore
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Oscar Thomas Jobe Jr., educator
Oscar Thomas Jobe Jr., a city public school educator who rose from being a classroom teacher to chief of staff to two Baltimore school chiefs, died Sunday of complications from Parkinson's disease at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham.
The...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Cherry Hill, Colleges and Universities, Financial Aid, Health and Safety at School
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Raymond L. Johnson Sr. dies at 89; lawyer, civil rights activist
Raymond L. Johnson Sr., an attorney, civil rights activist and former Tuskegee Airman, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles of complications of pneumonia and heart failure, said his wife, Evelyn. He was 89.
Johnson, who practiced law for nearly 50 years, was a...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Riots, Colleges and Universities, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Robert L. Carter dies at 94; NAACP attorney fought segregation
Robert L. Carter, who as an NAACP civil rights attorney was an architect of the legal strategy used in the cases that led to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional, has...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Bronx (New York City), NAACP, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights
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Word on the web: TwitterChurch
There’s a saying that a church is not a building, it’s the people. And Jay Gamble knows where to find the people.
The pastor of LifeChange AME Church, based in Slayton House in the Columbia village of Wilde Lake, holds church services on...Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Upper Marlboro, Twitter, Inc., Religion and Belief
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3 Sue To Prevent State Take-over of Harrisburg
Three Harrisburg citizens filed a civil-rights action Thursday in United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Civil Action No. 1:11-CV-2288 alleges that Senate Bill 1151, amending Act 47, violates their federal right to due...Tags: Philosophy, Politics, U.S. Senate, Regional Authority, Virginia Union University
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Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky makes bail
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was released from jail Thursday after spending a night behind bars following a new round of child sex abuse charges filed against...Tags: Mitt Romney, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, Politics, Regional Authority
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Nathan Chapman set for release
Nathan A. Chapman Jr., the once-prominent money manager whose fraudulent investments in his own companies caused a scandal for Maryland's public employee pension system, is scheduled to be released from federal custody Friday after serving 41/2 years....Tags: Politics, Prisons, Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Crime, Law and Justice
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