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 ...

Prince George’s County residents urged the County Council to require project labor agreements for the proposed 6,000-seat, $1.4 billion National Harbor Sphere, emphasizing local hiring, fair wages and ...

The 27th annual Baltimore Book Festival returned to the Waverly neighborhood Sept. 19-20. The event spanned across the three blocks of 30th, 31st and 32nd streets to the west of Greenmount Avenue.

On the night of Sept. 14, I watched the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards’ three-hour broadcast from beginning to end, only to realize that not a single Black performer had crossed the stage to accept an ...

Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. held their “Impact Day- Nurture Nest Initiative: Mothers Rising, Children Thriving” event on Aug. 26 at Coppin State University. The event took place ahead ...

Mayor Brandon M. Scott has signed legislation prohibiting smoke shops from operating within 750 feet of Baltimore schools and parks. “This bill tackles this issue that we’ve known not just in ...

As the pastor of one the oldest Black churches in Washington, D.C., Rev. William H. Lamar IV understands the historic significance of the ancestors. Each week, he takes to the pulpit of Metropolitan ...

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The National Urban League says Trump administration policies are widening barriers to Black Americans’ economic and political progress, threatening gains since the Civil Rights Movement. WASHINGTON ...

That is why a recent announcement about a new treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer demanded my attention. New clinical data shows that daraxonrasib doubled survival rates for patients with ...

BUTHA-BUTHE, Lesotho (AP) — One may not expect thousands to flock each winter to Lesotho but for many ski enthusiasts from across southern Africa, the small, landlocked mountain kingdom has become the ...