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Committee seeks names for Annapolis marker honoring March on Washington
A committee building a new memorial in Annapolis has extended the deadline for names of those who took part in the August 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The committee had initially...
Tags: Human Interest, Annapolis, Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Arundel Community College
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Silver Hawks: After a cold start, Drury heating up
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Seeing pitches to hit is a good thing for a baseball player. Seeing your breath? Not so much. Brandon Drury struggled when the South Bend Silver Hawks opened the season in near-freezing temperatures. Lately, he’s been...Tags: Justin Upton, Chris Johnson (baseball), Spring Training, Philosophy, Martin Prado
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Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'
In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...Tags: Human Interest, Cultural Development, LSD, Culture, Arts and Culture
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A rosy new stage for Sugar Blue
These are very sweet days for Sugar Blue. In a few months, he'll be a father once more, his wife and bass player Ilaria Lantieri expecting their first child together in late May or early June. In the meantime, the two — who own a home in...
Tags: Apollo Theater, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, James Cotton
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Prefer not to? Kevin Smokler says you should reread 'Bartleby'
It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't been passing notes in class written...Tags: Authors, Human Interest, David Foster Wallace, The Happiest News!, Steve Harvey
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Emily Raboteau's fresh exploration of identity and faith
-------------------- Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau Atlantic Monthly Press: 320 pp., $25 -------------------- In 1965, author and civil rights essayist James Baldwin appeared at the Cambridge Union...Tags: Israel, Malcolm X, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, The New York Times
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Gordon Parks, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Langston Hughes
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Nathan Englander examines identity
Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...Tags: Track and Field, The Washington Post, Long Island, John Updike, Chicago Tribune
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As 'Bastard out of Carolina' turns 20, Dorothy Allison reflects on her career
In her potent memoir and manifesto, “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure,” Dorothy Allison writes, “Oh, I could tell you stories that would darken the sky and stop the blood.” And then she declares, “I am not here to make...
Tags: Rentals, Lobbying, Harold Washington Library Center, Politics, Chicago Tribune
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Battered Sox rotation could use stalwart like Buehrle
Are Mark Buehrle's old friends about to start missing him? Sooner or later, it is bound to happen. You don't win 161 games for a franchise and leave at age 32, with a sturdy arm still capable of 200-plus innings, without your name coming up in a...
Tags: Philip Humber, Paul Konerko, Kenny Williams, Mark Buehrle, Seattle Mariners
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Police Asking for Help Finding Missing Kalamazoo Township Man
FOX 17 Web ProducerKalamazoo Township Police Department is asking for help finding a man who has been missing for four days, according to his family. Family members say James William Baldwin, 39, was last seen on Friday, Oct. 26 in the early the evening. He's said to be... -
Chinese-American novelist to speak at UM
Maxine Hong Kingston's most recent book, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life" — possibly the last from this pioneering Chinese-American novelist, memoirist, poet and activist — includes a glossary to help readers with all the loan words. "I...
Tags: Fiction, Authors, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Zora Neale Hurston
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Oct 29, 2012
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