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Slavery for all
Note to workers in the global economy (and those who support Walmart): As long as some of you are willing to work as slaves, we will all be working as slaves. Rick McCarter Burbank -
Burb's Eye View: It's getting easier to find the right genes
The steps leading down to the quiet storefront added to the intimidation. He remembers it not as a cellar, exactly, but it was a small, dense room underneath the street-level life pulsing away in the evening. Leo Myers, then just a teen, approached the...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Human Body, Abraham Lincoln, Health, Research
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Emancipation Day festival marks freeing of slaves in Florida
Freedom deserves a celebration. Old Dillard Museum is hosting an Emancipation Day mini-festival on Saturday afternoon with jazz performances, African dance, vendors and exhibits. The free event commemorates the date President Abraham Lincoln's...Tags: Museums, Dillard High School , Arts and Culture, Walker Elementary School, Fort Lauderdale
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high temperature near 85 degrees. Tonight is is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low temperature around 60 degrees.
TRAFFIC
Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues as you...Tags: Lobbying, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Chrissy Polis, Yeardley Love, Labor Legislation
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Parkville pair face more than a dozen charges in sex 'slave' case
A Parkville couple accused of treating a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina as their personal sex "slave" and filming and distributing videos online of their sexual interactions with her have each been indicted on more than a dozen state and federal sex...Tags: Parkville, Lawyers, Abusive Behavior, Prosecution, Baltimore County
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Woman traced ancestors to Civil War
Daily American Staff WriterDeeDee McGowan, Somerset, always knew she was a descendant of a Civil War veteran. Her great-great-grandfather on her mother’s side, Thomas C. Mitchell, was a private in Company D, 64th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. But recently...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Facebook, U.S. Army, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Abraham Lincoln
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On alert for human trafficking
South Bend TribuneLocal volunteers will gather in the Benton Harbor area Sunday to put stickers on bars of soap and deliver them to hotels -- seen as a preemptive strike against human trafficking. The stickers will offer a toll-free line to call for people who fear they'...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, PGA Championship, Super Bowl, Stevensville
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UCLA tribute to Universal films: Kenneth Turan's pick of the week
24 FramesThe UCLA Film and Television Archive tribute to the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures goes into high gear this weekend, with programs changing daily at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood.... -
Review: Jacob Yanes offers a tapestry of meaning
To enter the upstairs gallery at Steve Turner is to be startled by the staring, globular eyes of “Philomela,” Jacob Yanes’ life-size sculpture of the much-wronged figure from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Her gaze is...
Tags: Gertrude Stein
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln i/¿e¿br¿hæm ¿l¿¿k¿n/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional,...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, American Civil War (1861-1865), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Executive Branch
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Finding your roots
"Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr." is another of the Harvard professor's wonderful television series for PBS. This is "must-see TV" and a more than worthy sequel to three previous projects Gates has hosted about how some of us came to be what...Tags: Brown University, Republican Party, Ralph Edwards, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chris Rock
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Is 'one-drop' rule overruled?
So what if Elizabeth Warren claims to be part Native American? She's entitled, according to historical documents. Besides, Americans never have been all that clear or consistent about what distinguishes one race from another. Republican Sen. Scott...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Elizabeth Warren, The Washington Post, Scott P. Brown, Boston
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May 15, 2012
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May 15, 2012
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May 16, 2012
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May 14, 2012
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May 14, 2012
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May 8, 2012
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May 9, 2012
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