Word: honored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Notable black leaders who had gathered to honor Washington were scattered around the room, including Dr. J. Keith Motley, the first black chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston and the first black head of any major research university in the Greater Boston area...
Back then, "Christian" and "Muslim" were labels we kept in our pockets. It didn't matter what religion you belonged to. It was common for us Muslims to attend Sunday Mass, since we honor Jesus and Mary, or, as we call them in Arabic, Issa and Miriam. Muslim women prayed at the Milk Grotto, where Mary is said to have nursed Jesus, in order to be blessed with a child. We visited the homes of our Christian friends and picnicked with them in the spring, when the apricot trees blossom on the hills. At Christmas, Muslim and Christian children would...
Under his new title, Payack is expected to honor poetry and foster an appreciation for it by spreading it to new circles in the community, according to Jason M. Weeks, the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council and a member of the Poet Populist advisory committee...
Seattle Poet Populist Program Manager Bob F. Redmond said the position was implemented in 1999 based on an idea by City Council President Nick Licata “to honor the literary arts and get the general public involved...
...will honor the memory of Michael Colono by continuing to fight for justice on behalf of him, his family, and the Commonwealth,” the statement said...