Opinion

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

Inner Harbor redevelopment needs big ideas to bring luster back to downtown Baltimore and to energize the city, Anirban Basu, an economist and head of an economic and policy consulting firm, says.

After decades of unjust imprisonment, Eddie Conway returned to his community to help others, just as he had as a leader of the Black Panthers in Baltimore, says Adam Jackson, chief executive officer of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Jackson says his own activism was inspired while observing Conway’s tireless commitment and working alongside him.

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 police officers demonstrate a lack of empathetic humanity, incidents such as the killing of Tyre Nichols occur, a reader says. A physician says Marylanders will benefit from full implementation of the state’s family and medical leave law. Any plan for Lutherville-Timonium redevelopment must rely on the area’s history and facts about issues such as zoning, the Lutherville Community Association’s president says.

Baltimorean Justin Glaze discusses his time on the reality show and its counterpart “Bachelor in Paradise.”

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.

The Maryland General Assembly is considering legislation, backed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, that would mandate longer prison sentences for illegal gun possession. Heather Warnken, executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and Joseph Richardson, a professor of African-American studies and anthropology at the University of Maryland, say longer sentences will only serve to damage communities while having little or no deterrent effect on gun violence.

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.

Draper was eminently qualified to practice law in Maryland when he applied for admission to the Maryland Bar in 1857 but was denied admission because he was Black. Attorney John G. Browning says admitting Draper to the Maryland Bar posthumously is a step toward reckoning with the history of discrimination in the legal profession.

Actor and singer Keith Snipes recalls how the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center provided the foundation for his training as an artist. Decades after his first time there, he credits the center with training countless young, aspiring performing artists and making a difference in their lives.

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.