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'Southland,' 'Girls,' 'Doctor Who' among Peabody Award winners
RedEye"Southland," "Girls," "Game Change," "Louie," "Doctor Who" and "Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels are among this year's Peabody Award winners honoring the best in electronic media. It's nice to see "Southland"--one of the best shows the Emmy...Tags: Media Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taxation, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture
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'Scoop' follows Jack Nelson's rise to civil rights crusader
At the top of great social movements, charismatic leaders spin out visions of things that just might be. Closer to the bottom, it's journalists who sometimes force us to confront the way things are. Jack Nelson was one of the best journalists of the...
Tags: FBI, Journalism, Barack Obama, Human Interest, Racism
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Highland Park and Deerfield churches explore Passover Seder
The Passover Seder recounts the story of how the Jews were freed from bondage. Two Seders to be held this week give a new meaning to the eternal question: "Why is this night different from all other nights?" In this case, it is because they will each be...Tags: Passover Seder, Good Friday, Religion and Belief, Passover, Arts and Culture
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Man wounded by gunfire at family party dies at hospital
A man who was critically wounded by gunfire at a family party in South Los Angeles died Sunday, more than five hours after he was taken to the hospital, police said. Authorities said the shooting occurred about 12:35 a.m. near Avalon and Martin Luther...Tags: Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics, Prescription Drugs
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Force of King legacy strong in these youths
"An individual has not started living," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once declared, "until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." I can't say whether any of the 59 Orange...
Tags: Orlando, New Products, Human Interest, Haiti, Valencia College
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: FBI, Barack Obama, Human Interest, John Lewis, Crime, Law and Justice
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TheaterWorks in Hartford Takes on MLK
The Mountaintop By Katori Hall, Through May 5 TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., (860) 527-7838, theaterworkshartford.org This play is a brave leap of imagination that takes just a little too long to achieve lift off. Katori Hall has taken up the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, TheaterWorks
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T:B:O, a gospel hip-hop group, to entertain and inspire in Newport News on Saturday
T:B:O, a Hampton Roads-based hip-hop gospel group, will be part of a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Newport News on Saturday. The group's short set will be included in a wide-ranging celebration held 6-9 p.m. at the Denbigh Community Center...
Tags: Suffolk (Suffolk, Virginia), Music, Morgan State University, Flossmoor, Hampton Roads
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Lynchburg entrepreneur is raising funds for trade school
ReporterLynchburg entrepreneur, Thomas Johnson wants start a school to help local community members learn woodworking skills. “You have to understand that woodworking is big,” said Johnson. “When you were born, you were welcomed by what? A...Tags: Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Ghana
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev was disruptive twice at Cambridge mosque
The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon worshiped at the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque in Cambridge, with the older brother disrupting services and challenging the congregation’s moderate theology, the society...
Tags: Shootings, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religion and Belief, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sports
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Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan
Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...
Tags: Breaking Bad (tv program), Hillary Clinton, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Bryan Cranston
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As 'Mad Men' moves into 1968, Matt Weiner talks history
“Mad Men” returned to AMC Sunday night with a premiere that was criticized by some for being too slow – perhaps a touch ironic, given that the episode saw Don Draper and his colleagues ringing in 1968, a year that was anything but...
Tags: Arrested Development (tv program) , Vietnam War (1955-1975), Assassinations, Columbia University, AMC (tv network)
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