Black-owned newspapers were encouraged by the swift round-up and hopeful for a reckoning long overdue.
Tracking air travel: See how many people are flying this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving air travel is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. Use our tracker to see how many people are flying in real time.
Silver Spring salon stays open with little relief, lots of resolve
Alchemy Hair Salon is nestled right next to Trader Joes in a Silver Spring shopping center. Today most of the chairs are full and the sound of blow dryers is everywhere. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Maryland salon…
Environmental lessons for Maryland in wake of COVID-19
Over 20 months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the environmental impact of the virus has illuminated existing inequities in Maryland, while also offering a blueprint for the future.
Billing errors plague health providers in Maryland
Behavioral health providers, who offered mental health services and substance use treatment during the pandemic, are in a dispute with the Maryland Department of Health on repaying more than $200 million that the health department said it overpaid providers in 2020.
Never mind the honeybee: Maryland researchers want more buzz over saving native bee species
Misguided information on which bee species to save has created a media frenzy over protecting the honeybee despite research pointing to steady honeybee populations, experts say.
How a 1919 massacre tore Elaine, Arkansas, apart
Historians say the massacre claimed five white lives and more than 200 Black lives, though the true number of Black deaths is unknown and some estimates put it much higher.
History focuses on men, but Black women were lynched, too
Between 1865 and 1965, there were nearly 5,000 racial terror lynchings of Black people, according to a Howard Center analysis of the Beck-Tolnay inventory of Southern Lynch Victims and the Seguin-Rigby National Data Set of Lynchings in the United States. Approximately 120 of those victims — about 3% — were Black women.
A pregnant woman’s lynching resonates through generations
Mary Turner was one of at least 11 victims in Georgia’s Lowndes and Brooks counties during what became known as the Lynching Rampage of 1918.
Federal lawmakers in both parties seek to redress veteran homelessness
The measure is a response to a May 2020 Government Accountability Office report that, among other things, detailed insufficient coordination on housing between the Department of Veteran Affairs and local housing providers.