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The Book Club Rush — Just a week to go!

That’s right. There’s only one week to go until our Bridging Cultural Gaps Book Club [Thursday, April 13, from 7:30-9:00 p.m. at the Hyattsville (MD) Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street]. The BCGBC was founded to build community by exploring cultural differences through literature … Continue reading

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Hyattsville author finishes book before death — ‘The book kept him going,’ wife says

by Jamie Anfenson-Comeau Staff Writer Longtime Hyattsville resident David L. Levy died in December 2014, but just before he died, he was able to hold a copy of the book he spent the last two years of his life completing. … Continue reading

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Ferguson and the racial divide

The riots in Ferguson, Missouri, this week bring to mind the Hough riots in  Cleveland in 1966. (Won’t our country ever change?) Both Ferguson and the Hough section of Cleveland had recently changed from nearly all-white to mostly African-American, but their police forces remained … Continue reading

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2013 Fall Festival Season Begins

The 2013 Fall Festival Season began with the Hyattsville Arts Festival in Hyattsville, MD on September 14. It was a gorgeous fall day with a steady stream of people parading past the tents viewing the paintings and crafts by 70 … Continue reading

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Did it happen here?

Maryland is a southern state with a history of tobacco plantations, slaves, sharecropping, tenant farms, and Jim Crow. Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass were slaves here. There were forty-three lynchings, and school segregation survived into the nineteen seventies. There were … Continue reading

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