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    Apr 7, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Martin Luther King Jr. brought the fight to Chicago

    Two years before his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment in Chicago. At the time, blacks and whites here lived lives as firmly separated as in the Deep South, where his civil rights crusade had begun. African-Americans faced violent mobs if they tried moving into white neighborhoods and were refused service at Loop restaurants. Gerrymandering of school boundaries<strong> </strong>kept the public schools segregated.
    Chicago Tribune reporter
    Two years before his assassination, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment in Chicago. At the time, blacks and whites here lived lives as firmly separated as in the Deep South, where his civil rights crusade had begun. African-Americans faced...

    Tags: Richard Speck, Labor Legislation, Soldier Field, Martin Luther King Jr., Crime, Law and Justice

    2. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Buck Showalter accepts The Sun's Marylander of the Year honor

    Buck Showalter remembered sitting in the Orioles clubhouse as a driving rain delayed the first playoff game Baltimore had hosted in 15 years.
    Buck Showalter remembered sitting in the Orioles clubhouse as a driving rain delayed the first playoff game Baltimore had hosted in 15 years. "Do you think the fans will stay?" asked a relatively new Oriole. "Hell yes," replied closer Jim Johnson....

    Tags: Nick Markakis, New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver

    3. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. When 'Negro' was in vogue

    The Census Bureau announced last week that it is dropping the use of the term "Negro" to describe black Americans in its population surveys. I suspect few will mourn the word's passing.
    The Census Bureau announced last week that it is dropping the use of the term "Negro" to describe black Americans in its population surveys. I suspect few will mourn the word's passing. Today Americans of African descent, especially younger ones, almost...

    Tags: Jesse Jackson, World War I (1914-1918), Tyler Perry, United Negro College Fund, College Baseball

    4. Mar 1, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Death penalty repeal clears a key test vote in Senate

    The Senate paused its debate of a bill that would make Maryland the 18th state in the nation to eliminate the death penalty&nbsp;after advocates of repeal won a key test vote.&nbsp;
    The Baltimore Sun
    The Senate paused its debate of a bill that would make Maryland the 18th state in the nation to eliminate the death penalty after advocates of repeal won a key test vote.  Senators voted 27-19 Friday to reject an amendment that would have created an...

    Tags: Allan H. Kittleman, Montgomery County (Maryland), Parties and Movements, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Richard F. Colburn

    5. Apr 3, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Police ID man killed Monday in shooting that injured son

    Baltimore police said the man killed in Monday's double shooting in West Baltimore was the father of the 11-year-old boy also injured in the attack.
    Baltimore police said the man killed in Monday's double shooting in West Baltimore was the father of the 11-year-old boy also injured in the attack. Ralph Timmons, 34, was fatally shot in the 1900 block of Bentalou St. on Monday night, police said...

    Tags: Drug Trafficking, Anthony W. Batts, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Substance Abuse

    6. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| South Bend Tribune

  6. How'd we get here?

    South Bend Tribune
    The overidentification of black students as special education is a longstanding and widespread problem in the United States. That's according to Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies, an initiative of the Civil Rights Project at...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Civil Rights, Students

    7. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| South Bend Tribune

  7. Are black students singled out?

    It's been one of Oletha Jones' passions for more than a decade to see an end put to the disproportionate number of black students labeled as special education in South Bend schools.
    South Bend Tribune
    It's been one of Oletha Jones' passions for more than a decade to see an end put to the disproportionate number of black students labeled as special education in South Bend schools. Jones, the education chairperson of South Bend's branch of the NAACP,...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Justice System, Teaching and Learning, Students

    8. Apr 1, 2013 | Orlando Sentinel

  8. Jones grad and others speak against bills that would encourage armed guards, teachers in schools

    Sentinel School Zone
    A civil rights organization, student groups and the NAACP have teamed up for a "Week of Action" statewide to protest two bills that could encourage schools to allow more adults to carry guns on campus. "Placing deadly weapons on our school campus won'...

    Tags: Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Police Arrests, Interior Policy, Politics

    9. Mar 30, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  9. Ben Carson's conservative views are drawn from the Bible

    I am not among the many who are shocked that Ben Carson, the brilliant and widely admired neurosurgeon based at Johns Hopkins Hospital, would emerge as a hero of the political right and Sean Hannity's new best friend.
    I am not among the many who are shocked that Ben Carson, the brilliant and widely admired neurosurgeon based at Johns Hopkins Hospital, would emerge as a hero of the political right and Sean Hannity's new best friend. That Carson would stoop to making...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Neurosurgery, Abusive Behavior, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Elections

    10. Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Confederate flag in North Carolina state building will come down

    A Confederate flag that was briefly displayed inside the old North Carolina State Capitol building is coming down and will be moved along with an exhibit on the Civil War to another site.
    A Confederate flag that was briefly displayed inside the old North Carolina State Capitol building is coming down and will be moved along with an exhibit on the Civil War to another site. The flag had been hanging for about a week before the...

    Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, Executive Branch

    11. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  11. Family of man shot by Martinsburg police officers seeks answers

    Family members of Wayne Jones, who died March 13 from multiple gunshot wounds when five Martinsburg police officers tried to arrest him during an altercation, claimed at a news conference Wednesday that Jones was struck 15 times by police bullets.
    richardb@herald-mail.com
    Family members of Wayne Jones, who died March 13 from multiple gunshot wounds when five Martinsburg police officers tried to arrest him during an altercation, claimed at a news conference Wednesday that Jones was struck 15 times by police bullets. The...

    Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Tampa, Schizophrenia, Shootings

    12. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Lawmaker proposes misdemeanors for heroin, cocaine possession

    Charging that the "war on drugs’’ has failed, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation that would allow prosecutors to file misdemeanor instead of felony charges in cases of simple possession of heroin, cocaine and...

    Tags: Drug Trafficking, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Trials, Crimes

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