Entertainers with local roots comment
June 2009 was a rough month in the entertainment business. First there was the strange death of television and movie icon David Carradine; then late night staple Ed McMahon passed away at 86, then last week America's most popular '70s poster girl Farrah Fawcett died after a long battle with cancer. But, most shocking was the...
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By Dorothy Rowley and LaToya Tooles
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers
WASHINGTON (NNPA)—In an emotionally charged eulogy that took place on a radiant afternoon, Stephen Tyrone Johns, the special police officer who was slain at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, was remembered as a gentle giant with a big heart and warm smile.
Hundreds of mourners, including local and...
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By James Wright
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers
SOMERSET, Md. (NNPA)— Somerset County, Md., boasts a population that is 40 percent African American and the presence of one of the state’s key historically black colleges.
Yet, African Americans are woefully unrepresented in the county government’s workforce and leadership, concludes a report released this month by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and the county’s NAACP branch.
“Somerset County’s motto is ‘semper eadem’ which...
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