Columns

Afraid your college major won't turn out to be what you do for the rest of your life? You aren't alone. And it's okay.

Winston-Salem State faces Lincoln in the men’s final, while Elizabeth City State takes on Shaw in the women’s championship game.

Don Lemon said Nikki Haley, at 51, is past her prime to be president. At 51, I disagree.

My agrarian heritage is still enough a part of me that I work until I drop, but the pandemic taught me about self-care.

When WRNR went off the air this month, Annapolis mourned the demise of its only FM station. It was a refrain similar to the one two years ago when Pat Sajak sold WNAV for $1. “Oh, woe is me,” cried Annapolis.

Belzer died Sunday at age 78. His John Munch character on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Homicide: Life on the Street" was a Baltimore weirdo to this writer - in the most endearing way.

Buying a waterfront house in Eastport seems like an odd choice for Jeffrey Eckel, an investor funding the generational shift from a carbon-based energy economy to one less likely to wreck the planet.

Baltimore’s bard of good-natured shock will come home for “A Date With John Waters,” a Valentine’s Day show that isn’t your standard flowery fluff.

I don’t really hate Valentine’s Day. I pretend that I do. I’ve spent the last 29 years sending Happy Presidents Day flowers to my wife because I’d rather not feel forced to say I love you. I do love her. Absolutely. But, if I’m honest about it, I like Presidents Day better than Valentine’s Day.

The best (T-Mobile) and worst (Tubi) ads from the big game, and how Rihanna’s pregnant joy overpowered a blasé halftime show.

The Maryland Department of Health is making it possible for more parts of Maryland to emulate Anne Arundel County’s crisis response system.

Don’t celebrate the fact that Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes will make history on Sunday night. Not when so many Black players through history were unjustly denied the chance to play QB.

The journey of a jersey from Ray Lewis to my closet helped me understand why football is a great connector (and Burt Reynolds was a gem).

LeBron James has now scored more regular-season points than anyone in NBA history, but his legacy goes so far beyond what he has accomplished on the court.

Artificial intelligence is about to have a Chesapeake Bay moment, changing environmental science in land use, wetlands preservation, oyster propagation and more. Could it save the bay?

Baltimore’s Jessica Smith Hebron, also known as “Culture Queen,” attended the 2022 Grammys as a nominee for her work with a unique collective of Black children’s artists.

Lynne Streeter Childress remembers the day her eighth grade history teacher was talking about the Constitution and the class spontaneously broke out in song from a 1975 episode of “Schoolhouse Rock.”

Some believe we as a society have an obligation to watch videos like the one depicting the death of Tyre Nichols. I can’t.

On Thursday night in Annapolis, these three gatherings might seem like unrelated events tied by a coincidence of calendar. But they were linked by the thread of gun violence in a small town, by people striving for change and by me. I followed the thread in hopes of finding some meaning.

Baltimorean Genevie Mayo is a contestant on “The Bachelor,” and being from here is enough to make me want her to win.