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Daughter of retired Roanoke judge murdered in Baltimore
The daughter of a retired Roanoke judge was murdered in Baltimore this weekend, according to a news release from the family. The Baltimore Sun reports that Alysia Strickland, 33, and Taewon Tuck, 34, were found dead in a burning car in West Baltimore...
Tags: Justice System, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Virginia Tech
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Mitchell leads Virginia past Morgan State, 75-57
Akil Mitchell had 15 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists and Virginia overcame sloppy play to beat Morgan State 75-57 on Wednesday night, the Cavaliers' eighth consecutive victory. Darion Atkins added a career-high 17 points and Joe Harris scored 14...
Tags: Justin Anderson, Virginia Cavaliers
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The Sun Remembers May 19-25
May 23, 1991: Mired in last place, the Orioles fire manager Frank Robinson and promote Johnny Oates, 45, the team's first base coach and a former Baltimore player. Oates will manage nearly four years here (291 wins and 270 losses) before going to Texas,...
Tags: Cleveland Indians, Baseball, Cleveland Browns, Syracuse Orange, Football
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Maryland Public Schools seeks to diversify teaching corps
Capital News ServiceMike Williams recalls having only one black, male teacher during his K-12 education in Montgomery County, Md. “I felt a bit isolated. That’s coming from me, and I was fairly popular. I was an athlete,” said Williams, 43, now a social...Tags: Minority Groups, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Montgomery County (Maryland), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Nearly $200,000 awarded for community strengthening efforts
A group of black men with visions to improve Baltimore were awarded grants between $10,000 and $20,000 for youth job training, the development of a debate camp at Morgan State University and teaching former prisoners to urban farm. The grants,...Tags: HIV, Employment Opportunities, Colleges and Universities, Open Society Foundations, Science and Technology
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Education gap begins early
Morgan State University President David Wilson makes a compelling argument that "receiving a quality education at the elementary and secondary level is a civil and moral right" ("Why education should be considered a civil right," May 13). I applaud his...
Tags: Personal Income, Human Interest
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Why education should be considered a civil right
I recently spoke at a seminar at Harvard on the theme of education as a civil right. Among other things, the seminar conveyed the urgency as well as the intractability of the problem of low college completion rates for certain groups of young people in...
Tags: Minority Groups, University of Michigan, Civil Rights, Personal Income, Colleges and Universities
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Track & Field: Like father, like daughter as Freeman gets D-I scholarship
andrewm@herald-mail.comLike father, like daughter: Hayley Freeman is going D-I. The South Hagerstown senior track star signed a letter of intent Tuesday with the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., where she will receive an athletic scholarship to compete at the...Tags: Track and Field, College Sports, Awards and Prizes, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Admit Coppin State University is a failed institution and close it
Your article on Coppin State University's new science building truly boggles the mind ("Science center may help Coppin close the gap," May 3). The state is spending $80 million for a building the university admits it does not have sufficient funds to...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, University System of Maryland, Coppin State University, Towson University
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Commencement speakers strive to inspire, entertain
Expectations are high for this year's commencement speakers at Maryland universities — an august crew that includes the Obamas and their team of writers as well as funnyman Bill Cosby and Hollywood director Jason Winer. But to stand out — or...
Tags: Stanley A. McChrystal, Stanford University, United States Naval Academy, Duke University, Colleges and Universities
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Report says GM leaving Morgan State's WEAA radio for Florida job
The Baltimore SunLaFontaine Oliver, general manager at Morgan State's WEAA-FM since 2007, is leaving to run public radio station WMFE-FM in Orlando, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Here's part of Sentinel TV Critic Hal Boedecker's report on the hiring of Oliver:...Tags: Radio Industry, Radio, Orlando, Entertainment
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Lionel A. Jones Sr., decorated Army officer
Lionel A. Jones Sr., a retired noncommissioned Army officer whose career spanned 25 years, died April 30 of cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 76. He was born in Lancaster, Va., and moved to Baltimore in 1939. After graduating from Frederick...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Vietnam, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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