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Independent - Marva Dodson treasures a crumpled, yellow diploma Mary Edmondson Johnson pulled from a desk drawer in 1979. The faded name of Sarah Bowman, the second black student to graduate from the Massillon Union School, is written on the 1877 certificate
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Tristan & Isolde
Austin Chronicle - Starring: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, David O Hara, Henry Cavill, J.B. Blanc, Jamie King (PG-13, 125 min.) Before Romeo & Juliet, there was Irritating sentence fragment aside, Tristan & Isolde s marketing department got
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AREA HAPPENINGS
Daily News - QUAIL FOREVER Southeast N.C. Chapter will meet at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at Fire Mountain Restaurant. TARHEEL MUSTANGS Chapter 5 will muster at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the MCAS New River Officers Club. All Marine Corps Mustangs and their guest welcome. Call
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Illiterate and enslaved, this poet persisted
Raleigh News & Observer - Before he was free from slavery, before he even learned to write, George Moses Horton, at 32, had his first book of poetry published. Horton was a slave living in Chatham County for 65 years, beginning when he was about 3 years old. His master was
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