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When you sit down to a holiday meal this season — particularly in Maryland — there’s a good chance you’ll be eating at least one dish invented or inspired by the Black diaspora.

The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health.

Kionne T. Abdul-Malik has been named chairperson for the Baltimore Commission for Women, whose mission she sees as more vital than ever in today’s current political climate.

Reparations — and who ultimately will receive them — remains a contentious debate in this country and in Maryland.

Maryland must uphold recently enacted legal protections for children who are subject to interrogation by police, say Jessica Feierman, an attorney and senior managing director at the Juvenile Law Center, and Emily Virgin, an attorney and director of advocacy and government affairs at Human Rights for Kids.

With the death of his brother during Israel’s bombing of Gaza, a Palestinian American says he fears for the lives of other family members there.

While court-ordered child support can address financial needs, it carries considerations that can complicate the lives of parents and children, writer and single parent Alanah Nichole Davis says.

Without reliable access to food, water and electricity, Palestinian civilians now are subjected to intensified Israeli bombing as the latest threat to their survival, journalist Eman Mohammed says.

For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release that it has suspended Officer Justin Lee without pay and is “taking steps to terminate his employment” after his indictment on felony charges.

Maryland needs air quality standards to curb harmful emissions from heating and air conditioning systems and water heaters, say Panagis Galiatsatos, an associate professor and a physician in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Ruth Ann Norton, president and CEO of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative.

Meghan Marsh has been the executive director since September at Disability Rights Maryland.

As president of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, Will Schwarz has the task of addressing the atrocities of racial terror murders of the past while helping to ensure that these crimes are not repeated in the future.

Pete Buttigieg touted wins from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and discussed the importance of active community engagement in transportation projects.

As the country marks National Hispanic Heritage Month through Oct. 15, the notion held by some that one has to speak Spanish to be considered authentically Latino in America is controversial and evokes painful feelings for many.

A shooting that injured five young people during homecoming week at Morgan State University should serve as a call to action for an entire community, columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Federal charges against Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr. of Arnold, then a senior member of the Pentagon’s communications staff, and his Glen Burnie barber, detail their roles in an alleged dog fighting ring that operated via encrypted text messages and a private message board. They just don’t explain how this could have gone on so long.

Efforts are underway around Maryland to confront the reality that more than 6,500 Black Americans were lynched in the United States between 1865 and 1950. At least 38 of the victims were in Maryland.

When it comes to how Latinos in this country self-identify, it ultimately depends on the person as well as various factors at play, including age, location, class, race and an evolving view of sexual identity.

The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service.