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Burlington Stores Announces its Holiday 2020 Seasonal Initiatives | Dallas Weekly

During a holiday season like no other, the national off-price retailer launches its first National Hiring Event providing 27,000 job opportunities, continues to offer extended store hours, and hosts its community Coat Drive BURLINGTON, NJ, October 7, 2020 – Burlington Stores, a leading national off-price retailer, announces its Holiday 2020 plans, including seasonal hiring efforts with the launch of its first […]

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Saluting Houston mothers on the front line

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For more than 40 years Vernon F. Blackman was a significant force in the theater. Beginning his stage career with the Little Theater Players, he founded the People's Theater Players, he founded the People's Theater Company of Cambridge and the Theater Company of Boston. From the 1950s until his

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Steven A. Davis

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U.S. Bank and the Vikings Kick Off $1 Million Effort to Enhance Minnesota's Places to Play

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Jackie Robinson Foundation Announces Honorees for 2016 Awards Dinner

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Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, ET

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Oliver O. Howard

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