africa
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Business entrepreneur established the Chicken George fast food chain and fought apartheid in South Africa - Rolling Road lived up to its name back in the early 1900s and traveling it you could easily imagine those hogsheads of tobacco bumping and rolling down it toward the deep, wide, 18th-century Patapsco River where they were loaded onto ships.
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- With 600 students, including a significant percentage of immigrants, music teacher Diane Schaming, wanted to try something new to interest her students in the music of different cultures.
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- Leonard Pitts says Ann Coulter is the latest Republican to demonstrate a tin ear on the subject of race
- BMA exhibition shows art in personal items from Africa.
- When University of Maryland law professor Larry Gibson was asked to get involved with the presidential campaign of then candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, he initially declined, yet ultimately she won him over, and his efforts helped her become Africa's first elected female head of state in 2005.
- Two Towson-area residents will celebrate the Peace Corps 50th anniversary this month, and reflect on the choice they made decades ago to join the Peace Corps.
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- After spending the past 22 years in Columbia, the African Art Museum of Maryland is settling into its new home in another part of Howard County.
- As thousands of refugees pour into camps in East Africa, several Maryland-based nonprofits are directing manpower and financial resources to the mounting crisis that threatens the lives of millions.
- A group of downtown businesses has loudly complained this year about the way Annapolis handles festivals. Among their gripes are loud music, a shortage of on-street parking and retail competition.
- With visible excitement, Chris Glass runs his finger across a large wall map of the world at the world headquarters of the nonprofit, IMA World Health, in New Windsor. In a few weeks, Glass, a Westminster native and a communications officer with IMA World Health, will be climbing the 19,336-foot summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise both awareness and funding to fight for Burkitt's lymphoma, a form of childhood cancer.
- U.S. investment in the battle against AIDS in Africa is vital to Africa, the U.S. and the world
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- Manhattan Institute expert says that despite all the controversy, the U.S. generally gets immigration right
- The scandals encircling the French politician and the former governor of California conjure major cultural taboos and unpleasant history
- Commodore Isaac Mayo may have sailed the world in defense of his nation, but the namesake of a Maryland town died on his own estate, the symbol of a nation divided.
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- William Donald Schaefer — the former mayor, governor and comptroller who left an indelible mark on Baltimore — is heading back to the city this afternoon for one last tour.
