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Greeley school board member blasts MLK Day
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A local school board member and radio station owner has come under fire for airing an editorial denouncing the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The broadcaster remains unrepentant and...Tags: Radio, Elections, Holidays, FBI, Minority Groups
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Historic reading of Constitution sees House tussle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans made history Thursday by staging the first-ever reading of the entire Constitution on the House floor. But that record may come with an asterisk: Democrats asked why original sections that later were amended,...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Personal Weapon Control, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Elections, Barack Obama
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Constitution reading provokes political tussling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats took turns politely in a historic recitation of the Constitution from the House floor Thursday, but the decorum hardly meant they were in agreement. In a nod to the tea partiers who put the Republicans...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Personal Weapon Control, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Elections, Barack Obama
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Pa. lawsuit: Whites told they can't teach blacks
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Four white Philadelphia teachers charge in federal race-bias lawsuits that a black principal suggested they were unfit to teach black students. The teachers work at a predominantly black school in the city's East Falls...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Minority Groups, Trials, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Jimmy Carter
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Letters and maps tell history of Laurel during Civil War
Although no battles were fought in Laurel during the Civil War, the city's railroad was a strategic resource for the Union Army, numerous units of Union soldiers were stationed here and the military's presence added a different element to the city's...
Tags: Library of Congress, Railway Transportation, Museums, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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February 17: Chicago Scene - Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
WGN NewsCerqua Rivera Dance Theatre Event: Saturday, February 19 8 p.m. Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport Avenue Chicago cerquarivera.org CRDT's "Jubilation" concert series commemorates African American pioneers and cultural icons in an innovative and...Tags: WGN, Minority Groups, Human Interest
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June 28: Focus on Family - Dennis and Judy Fradin
WGN NewsDennis and Judy Fradin The books are available at public libraries or: Dennis and Judy Fradin's Books A former teacher, Judy's writing career began in the late 1980's as a researcher for her husband Dennis' books. While researching famous people...Tags: Mississippi, WGN, Fiction, Minority Groups, Civil Rights
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June 20: Author - Christopher Robert Reed, The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929
WGN NewsChristopher Robert Reed To purchase a copy of the book: The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the...Tags: WGN, Minority Groups, Africa
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September 30: Author - Michael Starr, Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story
WGN NewsMichael Starr To purchase a copy of the book: Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story tells the remarkable story of Foxx, a veteran comedian and "overnight sensation" at the age of forty-nine whose early life was...Tags: Redd Foxx, Norman Lear, WGN, Heart Attack, Minority Groups
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May 18: Lunchbreak - Peppercorn Prime Dry Aged New York Strip
WGN NewsChicago Cut Steakhouse 300 N. LaSalle Street Chicago www.chicagocutsteakhouse.com (312) 329-1800 To read more about the restaurant: metromix.com Peppercorn Prime Dry Aged New York Strip Ingredients: 16 oz prime dry aged New York strip steak 3 oz...Tags: New York, Restaurants, Salt, WGN, Sea Salt
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Frank Godden dies at 101; helped develop African American resort
Los Angeles Times Frank Godden, who played a significant role in the development of Val Verde, a secluded and long-closed local resort community known as "the black Palm Springs," has died. He was 101. Godden, who had cancer, died Aug. 3 at his Los...
Tags: Tuskegee University, Real Estate Buyers, World War II (1939-1945), Los Angeles Hotels, Civil Rights
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