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Photo: Metro - Tony Cheng

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Photo: Thurgood Marshall

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Thurgood Marshall, the first black judge to be on the Supreme Court.

Photo: Judiciary Square Station

By Erik Kojola | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Metro - Urban Outfitters

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Photo: Fort Totten Station

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Photo: McLibel Leaflet

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The front page of the London Greenpeace leaflets.

Photo: Dollars

By Sheila Rajagopal | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Metro - Legends

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Photo: Metro - Lucias

By Erik Kojola | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Lucia's in Silver Spring.

Photo: Gallery Place/Chinatown - Chinatown

By Erik Kojola | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Ben's Chili Bowl

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Photo: Whaton Metro Station

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Photo: Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute and intellectual.

Photo: Gangs

By Sheila Rajagopal | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Metro - Champion

By Erik Kojola | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Champion Billiards in Silver Spring.

Thurgood Marshall

By Adith Sekaran | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Despite facing racism, Thurgood Marshall rose through the ranks to become the first black judge to be on the Supreme Court. Before becoming a justice, Marshall's most important case as a lawyer was the landmark civil rights case Brown v. the Board of Education.

Isaac Hayes

By Danny Scheer | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about (Shaft!) Right on You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother - (Shut your mouth) Anybody who has heard these lyrics before knows that the deep, sultry voice who sings the funky beat is talking about "Shaft." But most people do not know much about the man behind the infamous Shaft theme, Isaac Hayes.

Photo: Languages

By Sheila Rajagopal | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Metro - Super Chicken

By Erik Kojola | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Super Chicken in Silver Spring.

Photo: African American Civil War Memorial

By Elena Pinsky | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

The African American Civil War Memorial near the U Street Metro station.

A holy enjoyable "Constantine"

By Nick Falgout | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

The main reason director Francis Lawrence's "Constantine," an adaptation of the comic book series "Hellblazer," gets away with casting Hollywood's Most Overrated, Keanu Reeves, as its leading man, is the simple fact that Reeves plays a character that would be completely believable as his real-life persona. Could we see Reeves…chain smoking? Making dry yet knife-edged remarks about mental patients? Acting mildly misogynistic? I think so.

Shielding our right to know

By Christopher Consolino | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Reporters Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine are currently being held in contempt of court after refusing to testify in a federal investigation on the leaking of CIA agent Valerine Plame's identity to the press. The recent high-profile U.S. District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision forcing the two reporters to reveal their confidential sources in this case marks a continuing trend of the government to use newspapers as intelligence agencies, while giving the courts and/or Congress a chance to set a precedent for protecting news sources in the courtroom.

All-star jazz group shines

By Jeremy Goodman | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

On Friday, Feb. 18, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove performed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., on their "Directions in Music" tour. Their nearly three-hour performance was as powerful, complex and inexplicable as any music being played today.

Photo: snoWatcher

By Ely Portillo | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

The snoWatcher's blueprint.

A big McWin for free speech

By Alex Mazerov | Feb. 23, 2005, midnight | In Print »

On Feb. 14, the same day that a federal appeals court ruled that reporters at The New York Times and Time magazine may face jail time if they refuse to testify before a grand jury about their confidential conversations with government sources, free-speech advocates across the pond in England earned a huge victory.