Opinion

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.

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.