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Police Blotter
Police blotter Police reports in Baltimore city and county Eastern Baltimore Stolen vehicle A purple 1999 Dodge Stratus with Virginia tag JKU1843 was stolen Tuesday in the 400 block of S. Patterson Park Ave. Theft Someone removed copper tubing from...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Theft, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Patterson Park, Pikesville
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Ada C. Veney
Ada C. Veney, a retired Baltimore City Health Department superintendent who was a pioneering African-American nurse, died Sunday at Sinai Hospital of complications from a stroke. The Ashburton resident was 99. Born Ada Christiana Vessells in Richmond,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Death and Dying, Columbia University, Advanced Training, Morgan State University
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Those who knew King pay tribute
Read what the people who knew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. thought of him and the civil rights movement in Voices: Reflections on an American Icon Through Words and Song. The book includes locals Darryl R. Matthews Sr., general president of Alpha...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Baptist, Toy Industry, Marcus Garvey Jr.
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Celebrating King and a new year
Unisun EdItorWe're one month into 2008, and some of us have made (and broken) new commitments to things we care about. Some people might have written these resolutions in journals in hopes that they can look back at their scribbles as reminders. Others took amore...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Martin Luther King Jr., Sheila Dixon, Frederick Douglass
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Baltimore promoting its black heritage
Sun StaffCity tourism officials are using this month's scheduled opening of a museum spotlighting black history and culture to push Baltimore as a destination of choice for African-American tourists. With an eye on the planned opening June 25 of the Reginald F....Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Clubs and Associations, Economic Policy, Advertising, Frederick Douglass
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Heritage Festival celebrates third year
It's only been a few years since Baltimore's ailing AFRAM event was redesigned and transformed into the African-American Heritage Festival, but the new celebration has already developed a huge following and a positive reputation. "It's the combination of...Tags: Festive Event, Father's Day, Society, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Anthony Hamilton
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A new black history
IT IS A MANTRA among black Americans that we are insufficiently aware of our history, that our advancement will be hobbled until we are all rooted in a sense of continuity with the past. Yet every year we are regaled with not just a Black History Day but...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Racism, Booker T. Washington, Dundalk
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