Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Maryland’s forgotten victims: Shedding light on the state’s lynching legacy

Since 2018, the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project has worked to uncover the state’s legacy of […]


Morning Glory Homestead: Cultivating history, heritage and hospitality

On St. Helena Island in South Carolina, Anthony and Belinda Jones have transformed their ancestral […]


Protecting Moses African Cemetery: Residents return to court to safeguard the remains of Bethesda’s historic Black community

The headline says it all. Black bodies are buried underground in wealthy, well-educated, multi-ethnic, Bethesda, […]


Howard University partners with Google to launch AI speech recognition initiative

Howard University President Ben Vincent III touts groundbreaking initiative to include Black dialect in artificial […]


Commentary: Why we paused—and why getting BLocal right matters for the Baltimore region

Greater Baltimore Committee president and CEO Mark Anthony Thomas explains why the organization paused […]


Not just Big Bird: Things to know about the Center for Public Broadcasting and its funding cuts

By Audrey McAvoyThe Associated Press The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps pay for PBS, […]


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