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Obama, McCain win Wisconsin primary
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersBarack Obama swept to a double-digit victory in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, turning aside a fierce effort by Hillary Rodham Clinton and further propelling his campaign as the Democrats head toward epic contests in Ohio and Texas. Arizona Sen. John...Tags: Republican Party, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, State Budgets, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008)
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Schooled on black history
Black History Month was established in 1976, as an evolution of Negro History Week (founded half a century earlier by Carter G. Woodson), and has since become a staple of the nation's elementary school classrooms and textbooks. Times editorials, on the...Tags: African Americans, Arts and Culture, Martin Luther King Jr., McDonald's, Social Issues
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Recipes for remembrance
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmong the events commemorating Black History Month this year is the publication of three new books celebrating the rich and varied culinary contributions of African Americans. "Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus," is a reissue of the first...Tags: African Americans, Onions, Arts and Culture, Garlic, Key Lime Pie
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Ronald T. Takaki dies at 70; pioneer in the field of ethnic studies
Ronald T. Takaki, a prolific and controversial scholar who helped pioneer the field of ethnic studies and wrote animated histories about blacks, Asians, Latinos and other marginalized Americans during four decades on the UC Berkeley faculty, has died....Tags: African Americans, Migration, Arts and Culture, Family, World War II (1939-1945)
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28 days in the integration nation
For the white male power structure that sabotaged the Susan B. Anthony dollar, kept Chief Jay Strongbow out of the highest echelons of professional wrestling and posited a "White Christmas" as the last word in holiday cheer, it must have seemed like a...Tags: African Americans, Louis Farrakhan, Arts and Culture, George Allen, Shirley Chisholm
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'Sonata Mulattica: Poems' by Rita Dove
Sonata Mulattica
Poems
Rita Dove
W.W. Norton: 232 pp., $24.95
There was once a time when celebration of black achievement in the humanities, arts and sciences was limited to Black History Month and recitations at black churches. But given the widely...Tags: Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Tom Stoppard, Toni Morrison, History
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Teachers learn about Holocaust at summer institute
One teacher was interested in the connection between music and the Holocaust. Another learned about the Holocaust from Jewish friends when they were growing up in Miami and wanted to learn more. And another teacher wanted to expand his knowledge about the...Tags: Arts and Culture, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Health and Safety at School, Human Rights, Separation of Church and State
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Mount Dora library to host birthday party via Skype for black golf pioneer Charlie Sifford
MOUNT DORA — The W.T. Bland Public Library is an unlikely venue for a birthday party for pioneer African-American golfer Charlie Sifford, given that he doesn't live in Lake County. It promises to be an unusual event in another way, too. The...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Golf, Jackie Robinson, Skype
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'42' may open the eyes of a new generation
Somewhere in the middle of watching the movie "42," about Jackie Robinson's historic rookie year breaking baseball's color barrier, I decided something. I decided that this weekend, I'm taking my sons to see it too. They're teenage athletes, and they've...
Tags: Barack Obama, Baseball, Racism, Sports, Philadelphia Phillies
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City Lights: Making poetry a priority
Ever since I became a journalist, I have had one burning desire: to work the phrases "National Poetry Month" and "The Human Centipede" into the same column. With the following piece, my career will be vindicated. I'll get to the second phrase later. But...Tags: Human Centipede (movie), Arts and Culture, Halloween, Morgan Freeman, Mike Wallace
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UPDATE: Funeral arrangements made for Tuskegee Airman who lived in Salem
WDBJ7 Anchor/ReporterFuneral arrangements have been made for Lt. Dempsey Morgan. His funeral service will be held on Monday at noon at the Hamlar-Curtis Funeral Home at 1002 Moorman Road in Roanoke. ----------------------- The country and especially the Roanoke Valley...Tags: Tuskegee Airmen
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