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Through interviews with artists and attendees, keen historical analysis and archival film beyond that of the festival, director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has created a musically-charged social document that captures what it felt like in the summer of 1969 to be young and alive at a time of great cultural change in music, fashion, politics and, most of all, civil rights.
- A terminally ill inmate, who served nearly 40 years for murder in Maryland prisons, receives some mercy from a Baltimore judge and gets to go home.
- In decades of writing about media, outside the world of tabloid journalism, I have not seen a title for a public affairs program quite like WBFF's “Baltimore is Dying."
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Baltimore busting out with redevelopment projects. Can we just please stop the killing? | COMMENTARY
Baltimore appears to be busting out of the pandemic with impressive redevelopment projects. And yet the killings continue. - “If we allow Agent Orange to be forgotten, then the tragedy of pesticides will continue," Tran To Nga, one of the protagonists of the documentary "The People Vs. Agent Orange," says in the film that premieres Monday on PBS.
- A walk along Washington Boulevard in Pigtown can raise your hopes for Baltimore, but a few blocks along, and the challenges get steeper.
- What would the Greatest Generation think of the way Americans behaved during the pandemic?
- I want to thank Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Maryland U.S. Rep. Andy Harris for providing me with some clarity. Really.
- A retired but tireless electric engineer named Bob Bruinga created FrankenVolt at his home in Glen Burnie as a way to augment a Chevrolet Volt's power supply with a solar-powered battery.
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Billions would be more wisely invested in 300-mile-per-hour trains of the future than the much slower Amtrak Acela technology of the past. - I know, I can already see the eyes rolling, but let me explain.
- Baltimore Orioles ought to see attendance drop as a sign that they aren't treating fans with much respect these days.
- Baltimore lags the nation in recycling but it could soon set the example through the 'Every Bottle Back' initiative with help from the private and non-profit sectors.
- Taxing the burning of fossil fuels, a chief source of greenhouse gas emissions, would help contain the growing threat of climate change.
- The risk to public health and safety posed by selling mixed drinks to-go is among the pandemic-related policies that a federal agency is tracking.
- Baltimore saw a small increase in homicides while the trend in other cities has been much worse: That deserves to be recognized, not ridiculed.
- The collapse of trust, the rise of animosity — these are emotional, not intellectual problems. The real problem is in our system of producing shared stories. If a country can’t tell narratives in which everybody finds an honorable place, then righteous rage will drive people toward tribal narratives that tear it apart.
- In the past, a first-year president has usually been the primary target of TV’s comedians. This year, however, Inauguration Day came and went, and the Trump jokes just kept on coming.
- In 1852 Douglass was angry -- and for good reason: Congress had recently passed the Fugitive Slave Act requiring all Americans, North and South, to return those who escaped from slavery to their legal masters. In the spirit of Frederick Douglass, we need to use this year’s July Fourth as a reminder of the American tradition of critique.
- Maryland was a crucial holdout in the decision to declare independence from Great Britain.
- Through interviews with artists and attendees, keen historical analysis and archival film beyond that of the festival, director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has created a musically-charged social document that captures what it felt like in the summer of 1969 to be young and alive at a time of great cultural change in music, fashion, politics and, most of all, civil rights.
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- Billions would be more wisely invested in 300-mile-per-hour trains of the future than the much slower Amtrak Acela technology of the past.
- Maryland was a crucial holdout in the decision to declare independence from Great Britain.
- I know, I can already see the eyes rolling, but let me explain.