Frederick Douglass
When Maryland celebrates the 200th birthday of Harriet Tubman in 2022, there will be more complete documentation detailing the story of the Underground Railroad…
In 1852, the Maryland-born abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to address the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association’s 4th of July celebration in Rochester, N.Y. President…
Days after voting to remove a controversial Civil War plaque from the State House, the panel that oversees the historic building deadlocked over a…
Seeking to ride the tailwind created by the largest social upheaval in recent American history, two Democratic power brokers with deep Maryland ties declared,…
Maryland’s 250-year history of legal slavery came to an end when the practice was abolished on Nov. 1, 1864, nearly a year before the…
The District of Columbia is an orphan. Nobody claims ownership. It’s not part of Maryland. It doesn’t belong to Virginia. The District is a…
Maryland’s 7th congressional district was born out of civil rights activism and Black progressivism. Parren J. Mitchell of the legendary Baltimore family won the…
The niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is spending Saturday in Maryland, where she’ll appear at a series of Juneteenth celebrations –…
Don’t tell me about the labor pains – just show me the baby. That timeless phrase comes to mind as we consider the historic…
On the second day of Senate floor debate over legislation that would give local school districts the option of starting the school year before…