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Fantasy of Flight: BOGO ticket deal for Florida residents
Fantasy of Flight, an aviation-themed attraction in Polk County, is reintroducing buy-one, get-one-free ticket offer that runs through the end of September for Florida residents. Guests receive one admission free with the purchase of any paid...
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Wichita students hear from Tuskegee Airman
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsFighting the enemy overseas and fighting prejudice at home. That's the role the Tuskegee Airmen played during and after World War II. Students at Collegiate School in Wichita learned about the group's history on Thursday. The 'Rise Above' exhibit... -
Tuskegee Airman and Seattle sports fixture George Hickman dies at 88
Q It Up Sports DirectorGeorge Hickman, one of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen, and a longtime usher at University of Washington athletic events and press box attendant at Seahawks games, died on Sunday. He was 88. Hickman’s death prompted a wave of condolences...Tags: Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009), World War II (1939-1945), Barack Obama, Pete Carroll, Congressional Gold Medal Honorees
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Baltimore Police honor sergeant who served amid segregation
James Dixon joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1954 as a black officer in an era of widespread racial prejudice. Police posts were segregated and blacks were not allowed in patrol cars On Tuesday, a quarter-century after he retired as a sergeant,...Tags: Congressional Gold Medal Honorees
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Maria Cole dies at 89; singer was widow of Nat King Cole
Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has died. She was 89. Cole died Tuesday at a hospice in...Tags: Nat King Cole, The Boston Globe, Music, Cancer, Count Basie
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Bartender Drops Charges Against Cuba Gooding Jr.
CNNNEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans bartender who accused Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. of pushing her has dropped all charges against him, bar management said Wednesday. The unnamed female bartender told police Gooding stopped by the Old Absinthe...Tags: Movies, Academy Awards, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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50 percent off a popcorn & drink combo at AMC Theatres
South Florida Sun-SentinelSave half-off a popcorn and soda combo at AMC Theatres with a coupon good beginning Friday. The offer is good on two combos: A large popcorn and drink or a large popcorn and two drinks. Click here for the deal. The offer expires on Aug. 16. Three...Tags: Ides of March, My Week With Marilyn (movie), Mass Media, Hugo (movie), Martin Scorsese
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Battle Creek Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival Begins
FOX 17 ProducerThe annual Field of Flight Air Show and Balloon Festival begins Thursday, and runs through Sunday, July 1. This year's event will feature theU.S. Air ForceThunderbirds for their only performance in Michigan. They will take to the skies on Saturday,... -
Seventy years later, pioneering black Marines honored
When the train full of Marine recruits from Baltimore reached Washington, the blacks were made to move to the back. At boot camp in North Carolina, they were forbidden to step onto Camp Lejeune without a white escort. But the worst of it, Howard...
Tags: Catonsville, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Camp Lejeune (military base), Civil Rights, U.S. Army
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Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum
When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight.
A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Thurgood Marshall, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Anne Arundel County, Barack Obama
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Celebrities and Health Issues, Juliet Stevenson, Minority Groups, Politics, Elections
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'Red Tails'
Zap2ItThe story of the Tuskegee Airmen gets fresh treatment in this George Lucas-produced drama that truly takes flight in its superbly filmed aerial sequences. The script recounts how the young African-American pilots were called up to serve as U.S. forces...Tags: Ne-Yo, Movies, George Lucas, DVDs, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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