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Baltimore native and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (center) is shown here speaking with colleagues in 1954. (Courtesy Villanova Law Library, Flickr)
The story goes back to Marshall’s early days as the NAACP’s attorney, roving the entire country to defend African-Americans accused of crimes solely because of skin color.
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Holloweencostumes.com removed this Halloween costume of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank from its sites. (Screenshot from Holloweencostumes.com)
We live in a big country where there are bound to be idiots among us – as well as bigots, and terrorists, too. Sometimes, we pay a heavy price for an open society.
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Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as Vice president-elect Mike Pence looks on during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of Nov. 9, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Paul Manafort allegedly laundered more than $18 million through overseas shell companies, and Rick Gates allegedly transferred more than $3 million from offshore accounts, each attempting to avoid paying taxes on that money.
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Anne Frank's diary has been translated into more than 70 languages and is the most widely read work of the Holocaust era. (Flickr Commons)
The advertisement noted: “Now your child can play the role of a World War Two hero. It comes with a blue button-up dress, reminiscent of the kind of clothing that might be worn by a young girl.”
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Greg Novik of Greg's Bagels who passed away on Oct. 11, 2017, at 71. (Photo from Greg's Bagels Facebook page)
Before the bagel venture that eventually made him the unofficial mayor of Belvedere Square, Novik had been a professional musician (he played piano, bass, saxophone and guitar), an advertising executive, a freelance writer.
Read MoreThere are variations of the Trump-Tillerson competition. In one version, an unprintable adjective is attached to Tillerson’s “moron” slur. In another version, Tillerson never made the remark at all.
Read MoreThe weekend’s Fells Point Festival was, as usual, good for the heart. The restaurants all had outdoor seating, and the shops had outdoor displays, and there were arts and crafts all over the place.
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Police and rescue personnel at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave after a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, Oct. 2, 2017. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
When do we have an honest conversation about America’s killing fields? And not just about the gunplay, but about the thing that keeps an entire nation from coming to its senses – the obscene money that flows from the gun lobby to the legislators.
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Sixty Playboy bunnies celebrating the magazine’s 60th anniversary in Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2014. (Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Playboy)
What jump-started the sexual revolution, in the immediate post-war years, evolved into a world where the rawest, crudest sexual images can be summoned at the push of a computer button.
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