Elegance, education and purpose came together as Baltimore leaders, philanthropists, educators and supporters gathered for the 2026 UNCF Baltimore Mayor’s Masked Ball, an evening that made clear the ...
A new analysis finds insurance costs 16 percent more in Black neighborhoods — and the gap persists even after researchers account for risk. For Black homeowners, protecting the family home can come ...
Recently, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote an essay in The New York Times Magazine that has stayed with me. She reflected on a choice she and her husband made ten years ago about where their daughter would ...
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said on Feb. 10, the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped, warning that ...
Recently, schools across the country have begun banning books on topics such as religion, “witchcraft,” sexuality, police brutality and racism from the classroom and pulling them from school libraries ...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic spiked in the 1980s, resulting in the death of over 100,000 people from 1981 to 1990, making an irreversible mark on our world from a social, medical, and political perspective.
What is clear about the killing of Sonya Massey by a police officer in her home? To me, it is the fact that Black people in general—and working-class Black people in particular—are living a life in ...
Experts at All Things Hair conducted a survey targeting US women of different ethnicities above the age of 16 to investigate hair inequality. The survey revealed that women of color with 4c hair are ...
Later this year, I will open Marula Wellness, a cannabis dispensary and holistic health brand in Frederick, Md. Cannabis has been on my radar since Maryland legalized the medical use of this plant in ...
Over 200 people crowded into the newly built Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center for a grand opening celebration on July 2. The date of the event coincided with what would have been the 115th birthday of ...
In May of 2025, Reversed, a local shop located on 1916 Fleet Street in Fells Point, hit the thrift scene in Baltimore. Initially, the store had trouble attracting customers. Then Kendall McGill, the ...
The recent horror that unfolded on and around Pennsylvania Avenue and North Avenue should shock every single one of us to our core. A mass overdose. Let that phrase sink in. Not an isolated incident, ...