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Why I became Muslim
For Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that falls in August this year, we asked a few people in South Florida why they became Muslim and what it has meant to them. Here are the last two.
Patricia Salahuddin
Patricia Salahuddin teaches at the Design and...Tags: Nation of Islam, Holidays, Palm Beach County, Christianity, Ramadan
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More than 250 tickets sold for Doleman Black Heritage Museum's fourth annual Fall Fundraiser
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comThe family and friends of the late Marguerite Doleman, who founded and operated an African-American museum in her North Locust Street home, turned out by the hundreds Saturday night to support finding a permanent site for the artifacts that took her...Tags: Slavery, Human Interest, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts and Culture, Museums
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Baltimore's Theatre Project is still radical at 40
The headline on a 1972 article in The Baltimore Sun neatly summed up the recently formed Theatre Project: "New and radical — and free."
Today, the intimate venue on Preston Street still offers plenty of theatrical experiences that qualify as new...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Documentary (genre), Opera (genre), Talk Shows (genre), Danny Hoch
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50 picture-perfect fall getaways
As summer's fleeting charms begin to fade, fall swirls into view in a burst of kaleidoscopic color. Relish autumn's arrival with 50 nifty travel ideas for the Mid-Atlantic region: from leaf peeping and leisurely drives, to museum-hopping, fall-inspired...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Talbot County, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Music, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey)
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Tumultuous decades for a housing-aid activist
Vincent Quayle knows the corrosive effect of foreclosures well, sitting as he does at the helm of a nonprofit group that helps homeowners in trouble.
But he says the current foreclosure crisis is nothing compared to the damage wrought by the...Tags: Elections, Homes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Real Estate Buyers, Mortgages
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Tuskegee Airmen, Drama (genre), Michelle Obama, Community (tv program), HBO (tv network)
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Democrats oppose new congressional map
A chorus of Democratic officials concerned about minority voters in the Washington suburbs said Tuesday that they oppose the new congressional districts proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley's redistricting commission, setting up a key battle as the General...Tags: Dereck E Davis, Republican Party, Steny Hoyer, U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Party
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Start the Presses: Memories of New York
Anniversaries are strange. At once vitally important and arbitrary, they purport only to mark time, but immobility bind us to our past. With that in mind, I want to share a piece I wrote in New York on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Journalism, Manhattan (New York City), New York City, Morningside Heights
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Iowa group to fund suit against Maryland's congressional map
An Iowa-based foundation is financing a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Maryland's new congressional map on the grounds that it unconstitutionally splits minority communities. Christopher Rants, a Republican former speaker of the Iowa House who...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Elections, Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), Christopher Rants, Republican Party
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Howard's school choice
One of the great ironies of education reform in Maryland is that for all the standardization and testing directed at the classroom, the one place where there's no clear-cut formula for success is how school boards should be selected. Some boards are...Tags: Baltimore County, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Nancy Grasmick, Ken Ulman
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Film helps African-Americans remember a lively Carr's Beach
Decades ago, a trip to segregated Ocean City presented far too many challenges for African-American families. Instead they went to a sandy peninsula near Annapolis, known as "the beach," for a day's outing.
Carr's Beach — its proper name —...Tags: Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, History, eBay Inc.
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BSO salutes legacy of Harriet Tubman with new composition
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...Tags: William Bolcom, Dorchester County, Marin Alsop, Fine Arts, Harriet Tubman
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