Black History Month

The Baltimore Museum of Industry is offering a free virtual program on March 28 that looks at the Black women who desegregated a number of industries in Baltimore during the civil rights movement. The discussion is part of the museum’s efforts to honor Women’s History Month, which ends March 31.

Moses Ingram is part of a contingent of Black Maryland women dominating TV and film roles.

House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones was one of five Black state house speakers invited to a White House meeting on Monday, the same day Gov. Wes Moore attended a Black History Month event at the White House.

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).

Around the state, more than 50 of the buildings that once housed all-Black or so-called “colored schools” remain.

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

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.

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.

From the inception of catering to the creation of fine dining, Black Marylanders have played a large role in shaping America’s food history, several experts say.

As the creators behind local staples like crab cakes and terrapin stew, African American cooks have shaped Baltimore’s long history as a dining destination while almost never getting credit.

The region has no shortage of historical sites marking the life of the Dorchester native who escaped to freedom and was a leader in the Underground Railroad.

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.

Maryland’s congressional leaders pushed for removing Roger Taney’s bust from the Capitol and replacing it with a new work honoring the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, a champion of civil rights.

In another move to turn into “a hall for all,” the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will also have programs such as ”The Jazz Age — Harlem Renaissance” and ”Calypso Fusion” in February.