ANNAPOLIS— A student activist is calling for a statue of Harriet Tubman to be added to the grounds of the Maryland State House. The Washington Post reports that University of Maryland student Colin Byrd thinks his push for the Tubman ...

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CAMBRIDGE — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Maryland’s Eastern Shore to mark the designation of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument. Salazar spoke Wednesday at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Center in Cambridge, which is part of the new ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has designated five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites. Vice President Joe Biden and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined Obama Monday in the Oval Office as he signed ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin is calling again for the establishment of national parks honoring abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Cardin says he will join with officials from the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Organization for Women and other groups ...

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WASHINGTON — Descendants of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman have unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom at The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds in Washington. Tubman’s great-great-great-grand-nephew Charles E.T. Ross and Tubman’s great-great-grand-niece ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis won’t ever be mistaken for Miami’s South Beach or New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, but visitors headed to the Circle City for the Super Bowl will find plenty of attractions, great restaurants and interesting taverns — not to ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin is making another push to create national parks in Maryland and New York dedicated to Harriet Tubman. The Maryland Democrat says he will speak on Wednesday to advocates, historians and Tubman descendants about his efforts ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday announced the state has received an $8.5 million federal grant to build the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Dorchester County, the final grant needed to create the $21 million project. Construction ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Supporters of a bill to replace a statue of Maryland founder John Hanson in the U.S. Capitol with a statue of Harriet Tubman are saying opponents are too emotionally attached to the status quo. Led by Del. Susan ...

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