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| washingtonpost.com - Courtland Milloy (washingtonpost.com)
During more than 15 years as an aide to Rosa Parks, Ella McCall Haygan received a veritable roomful of mementos from the late civil rights icon. The gifts, which Haygan keeps at her home in Prince George's County, include autographed books and photographs, an autographed, limited-edition drawing of Parks with Martin Luther King Jr., a bracelet and a hair comb.
Whew, that was close.
During more than 15 years as an aide to Rosa Parks, Ella McCall Haygan received a veritable roomful of mementos from the late civil rights icon. The gifts, which Haygan keeps at her home in Prince George's County, include autographed books and photographs, an autographed, limited-edition drawing of Parks with Martin Luther King Jr., a bracelet and a hair comb.
Tyrone Harrison works a summer job as a mosquito control technician for the Maryland Department of Agriculture. For eight hours a day, he searches out stagnant water in woods and along roadsides where mosquitoes are likely to breed, notes the locations and eradicates the pests.
Driving through the District's Trinidad neighborhood the other night, I stopped to chat with three young men who were hanging out not far from where 13-year-old Alonzo Robinson was shot to death early Saturday.
Now that District residents can legally keep handguns, prospective gun dealers will need creative ways to target them. Based on my survey of gun shops nationwide, I suggest they start with a catchy name.
A young black man suspected in the death of a white police officer turns up dead in his jail cell, an apparent victim of strangulation. Echoes of racism and revenge killing reverberate through Prince George's County, which has a history of tension between black residents and white law enforcement officials. The suspicion among many blacks -- based on historical precedent -- is that a white jail guard killed Ronnie White, 19, to avenge the death of Prince George's Cpl. Richard S. Findley, 39, who was run down last week by a pickup truck allegedly driven by the accused.
They were sent to the Foundation School in Largo as a last resort. Nobody else could handle them, let alone figure out why they were so disturbed. Some had even been expelled from pre-kindergarten because teachers could not get them to be quiet or stay in their seats or stop picking on their peers. They scowled at classmates and cursed their teachers, always bucking for a fight.
Man up, Ernest Parker.
It was a warm afternoon in the District's Trinidad neighborhood, and a group of boys was walking shirtless in the streets, some with pants hanging down below their behinds.
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