This year’s Palmer Park Art Fair “celebrates the old, while focusing on the new.” The fair had been a popular annual event in the 1970s and was revived three years ago.
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Nick Mosby Drops Out of Mayoral Race, backs Pugh
Baltimore City Councilman Nick J. Mosby dropped out of the mayor’s race Wednesday and threw his support behind state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh, a move political observers say could be enough to push her to victory in this month’s election.
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Harvard Leadership Acknowledge University’s Slave History
For more than 200 years Titus, Venus, Juba and Bilhah were forgotten to history, their names and the very fact of their existence effectively stricken from the historical record.
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Detroit 300 Protecting and Serving Detroit’s Most Vulnerable
When a 90-year-old woman was raped and brutalized on Detroit’s eastside, neighbors and citizens across Detroit determined that rampant crime crippling communities had to come to an end, and it had to happen sooner than later.
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This Michigan Tire Shop Owner Says He Doesn’t Service Black or “Ghetto” People
The owner of a tire shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is attempting to defend himself after saying he doesn’t want the business of blacks and “ghetto people.”
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O’Reilly: Many African-Americans ‘are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads’
Bill O’Reilly interrupted Donald Trump’s claims about how he would create jobs for African-Americans on Monday night to make a louder point: That many of them are “ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads.”
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State of Black Miami Forum to Promote Joint Action on a Common Agenda
Miami-Dade County’s diverse black population shares a common heritage but seldom unites in pursuit of shared interests.
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[TEXAS] Single-Gender Schools Bring Exciting Opportunity to Students and Community
It’s a fair statement to say students and staff at Fred Florence and Balch Springs middle schools are beyond excited about the upcoming school year when both campuses will transition to gender specific schools.
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Early Childhood Education Partner to Fund Some City Pre-K
An investment firm working to improve quality of life for Philadelphia families has pledged $600,000 toward an initiative that would help with kindergarten readiness.
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Racial Bias and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Black students and Black students with disabilities have the highest probability of being suspended or expelled from schools statewide.
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