Opinion

Prosecution of children in adult court, which expanded as some Black and brown youths were being singled out as “super predators,” must end in Maryland and elsewhere, Adnan Syed and defense attorney Melissa Miller say.

Zombies are the reigning champion of pop culture monsters for a simple reason — they are a rotting metaphor for anything bad we choose to reanimate.

“Wild” author Strayed, whose “Dear Sugar” advice column inspired the play, discusses her work lending her life to stage and screen.

The College Board stripped down its AP African American Studies curriculum, failing to create a curriculum that centers Black scholars, two University of Maryland College of Education professors say.

Overcrowding is atop the list of issues Baltimore County’s next school superintendent will have to address, a parent of three county school students says. Robin Campbell says that overall, communities favor a more decentralized approach instead of having so many administrative responsibilities being under the control of Baltimore County Public Schools headquarters.

Annapolis is awash in often vitriolic fights about public access to the water. Greenbury Point, Holly Beach Farm, Quiet Waters Retreat, Whitehall and more are names at the forefront of the effort to expand the number of people who get to use the Chesapeake Bay.

Reading aloud to children lays the foundation for learning, says Claudia Nachtigal, head of school at The Highlands School in Bel Air.

Historic investment of at least $7.5 billion, to be spent over time, is needed to solve Baltimore’s crisis of vacant and abandoned houses, Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development (BUILD) says. The organization of clergy, neighborhood and educational leaders says the large-scale redevelopment needed for some city neighborhoods would require that level of investment.

Chris Rock taped "Selective Outrage," his live Netflix special, from Jada Pinkett Smith's hometown the week before the 2023 Oscars. It's hard to call that a coincidence.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says residents of the most vulnerable city neighborhoods favor tougher sentences for illegal gun possession, despite opposition from some in academia.

Chris Rock honed his Will Smith Oscars slap material at the Hippodrome on Friday at the last comedy show before the live taping of his Netflix special.

David Linthicum was arrested unharmed after authorities say he shot two police officers. Attorney J. Wyndal Gordon says he and other African Americans wonder whether police in Maryland or anywhere in America would’ve used this degree of restraint if they were pursuing a Black suspect.

Anne Arundel County’s schools superintendent is leading an effort to dump the 180-day calendar, but his proposal faces an uncertain future in the General Assembly.

Despite hate, division and governmental pushback, facts don't care about your feelings. Contributions from African Americans are important, no matter the month (or state).

Baltimore County’s Bring Your Own Bag Act, which will ban the distribution of plastic bags at some stores beginning in November, was weakened by an amendment to remove an equity provision, leaders of Blue Water Baltimore and Maryland Hunger Solutions say. The measure will now have a disparate impact on low-income residents, they say.

Legislation to make the the earned income tax credit and child tax credit permanent in Maryland will help the most vulnerable, the head of Maryland Community Action Partnership says; support for Black-owned businesses is a good investment in Baltimore, Bank of America’s Maryland president says.

Browns Woods Park seems too small a rectangle of patchy grass for the symbolism it holds. It is a touchstone of the historic Black community that once stretched from the Severn River across from Annapolis, all the way to Arnold in the north.

Childhood depiction with muskrat offers glimpse of her survival during enslavement

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.

A U.S. government official moved to censor W.E.B. DuBois in the months after World War I for challenging racial injustice in an editorial published in the magazine of the NAACP, Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says. During that era, some inside the government sought to prevent distribution of Black newspapers and magazines that published anti-lynching editorials and other work by Black journalists, Wickham says.