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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: Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Browns, American League, Chicago White Sox, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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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: Dwayne Johnson, Elections, Students, Montgomery County (Maryland), Colleges and Universities
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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: Science and Technology, HIV, Employment Opportunities, Colleges and Universities, Open Society Foundations
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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: Human Interest, Personal Income
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Education, Human Interest, Students
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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, College Sports, Track and Field, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), High School Sports
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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: University System of Maryland, Education, University of Baltimore, Towson University, Coppin State 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: Arne Duncan, University of Maryland, College Park, Barack Obama, Duke University, Bowie State University
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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, Entertainment, Radio, Orlando
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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: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Vietnam, Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes
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Mfume named chair of Morgan State board, signals Wilson will stay
Kweisi Mfume was named the new chair of Morgan State University's Board of Regents on Tuesday, more than three months after his predecessor was ousted amid a public battle over university leadership. Mfume quickly signaled that university President David...
Tags: NAACP, Education, Colleges and Universities, Kweisi Mfume, U.S. House of Representatives
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Open-meetings complaint filed against Balto. Co. Council over stormwater fee
A Pikesville man has filed an Open Meetings Act violation complaint against the Baltimore County Council, alleging that citizens didn't get proper notice of a meeting where they could have testified about the county's new stormwater fee. The council...
Tags: Justice System, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Baltimore County, University System of Maryland
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