Jonathan M. Pitts

Nearly 58 years ago, George Harrison of the Beatles paid a little-known visit to Mercy High School in Baltimore, and those who were there that day still talk about it.

Episcopal church leaders are halving the size of their national convention in Baltimore this July due to fears of a Covid-19 outbreak.

A man who was found with a bullet wound to the head in East Baltimore early Friday evening has died, according to Baltimore Police.

For more than a century, the 29th Infantry Division patch — an insignia built around a blue-and-gray image — has symbolized unity and liberation on the battlefield. Now, a congressional commission is considering mothballing the patch.

The Maryland Episcopal diocese has awarded grants to six community groups in the first distribution from its $1 million reparations fund.

Baltimore's oldest Reform temples, Har Sinai and Oheb Shalom, will commemorate their merger with formal installation ceremonies and a monthlong festival.

Rather than Johns Hopkins University's previous assertion that its founder “held enslaved people,” the Baltimore school's website now says “new research has uncovered census records that indicate enslaved people were among the individuals living and laboring in Johns Hopkins’ home in 1840 and 1850, with the latter document denoting Johns Hopkins as the slaveholder.”

With Russian troops waging war in the streets and cities of Ukraine, Baltimore's Ukrainian Jews will focus during Passover this year on commemorating and praying for Jews in the shattered East European country.

A Baltimore priest suspended over sexual abuse allegations last year has been reinstated after a church probe found no evidence of wrongdoing.

Ron Dolecki, a 76-year-old Army veteran from Huntingtown, Md., was once taken prisoner and held captive by Eritrean rebels in the Sahara desert, but for years the Army refused to award him the POW medal. The Secretary of the Army just reversed that decision, granting him the recognition and ending a nearly 20-year bureaucratic battle.

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is accepting applications for the first round of grants under a $1 million racial reparations program it inaugurated in 2020.

Joan Maloof of the Eastern Shore is pushing for the preservation and protection of America's old-growth forests, which serve as filters for air and water, function as storehouses of genetic information, and represent living remnants of eons gone by.

Legendary Modern Orthodox Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg is passing the leadership baton to his protege, Chai Posner, after 43 years at the 100-year-old Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore.

A longtime community activist, the Rev. Heber Brown III, plans to step down as senior pastor of his Baltimore church to focus on a food security network.

The cause was complications from frontotemporal dementia, a debilitative disorder of the brain.