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Ben Affleck to receive honorary doctorate from Brown University
Good Ben Hunting! Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University. Is this life imitating art? The Academy Award-winning producer and philanthropist, 40, is set to receive the honorary degree from the Providence, R.I.-based...
Tags: Argo (movie), Brown University, Education, Miami Dade College, Movies
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Lawrence Guyot dies at 73; longtime civil rights activist
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who was threatened, jailed and nearly beaten to death in the Deep South in the 1960s and helped lead a drive to register black voters during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964, has died. He was 73. The longtime...
Tags: Activism, Diabetes, Voting, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Justice and Rights
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Miss. marks 50th anniversary of civil rights sit-in that challenged segregated lunch counters
Associated PressJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will inaugurate a marker Tuesday recalling a civil rights protest 50 years ago when a white mob attacked a racially mixed group seated at a whites-only lunch counter. On May 28, 1963, the mob attacked some Tougaloo...Tags: NAACP, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Nova A. Scott, educator
Nova A. Scott, a retired Baltimore public schools educator who became the first African-American woman to serve on the Howard County Commission on Aging, died Wednesday of complications from an infection at Howard County General Hospital.
She was 86....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Howard County, American Red Cross, Howard Community College, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, has died. He was 73. Guyot had a history of heart problems and suffered from diabetes, and died...
Tags: Diabetes, Same-Sex Marriage, Voting, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Justice and Rights
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'Just A Foot Soldier,' a Freedom Rider's story
Exploring raceOn May 4, 1961, an integrated group of "Freedom Riders" left Washington D.C. for Louisiana on a Greyhound bus to challenge segregation throughout the Deep South. After the Freedom Riders’ bus was fire bombed in Alabama—with them inside---...
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