africa

• Maryland

Music and arts festival comes to city

Common Ground on the Hill is branching out from its roots in Westminster and launching a concert series in Baltimore

• Obituaries

Theodore Holmes, founder of Chicken George restaurant chain

Business entrepreneur established the Chicken George fast food chain and fought apartheid in South Africa

• Middle East

Egypt and Islam

• International Travel

Rolling Road lived up to its name in the early 1900s

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.

• Opinion

Support adoptive same-sex couples

Same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children

• Maryland

Baltimore County music teacher brings drumming to school

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.

• Howard County

Datebook

Howard County datebook

• Opinion

'Our blacks' vs. 'their blacks'? Why conservatives shouldn't talk about race

Leonard Pitts says Ann Coulter is the latest Republican to demonstrate a tin ear on the subject of race

• Opinion

Don't bet on anything good coming from Gadhafi's death

• Opinion

Hearing Dadaab's cries

• Africa

Gadhafi's death: A validation of Obama's policy

• Opinion

U.S. troops to Uganda: Obama gets one right

• Arts and Culture

Handcrafted, everyday beauty from Africa on display

BMA exhibition shows art in personal items from Africa.

• Arts and Culture

Handcrafted, everyday beauty from Africa on display

• Elections

Maryland law professor was adviser to Nobel laureate

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.

• Colleges and Universities

Peace Corps volunteers recall work that changed their world

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.

• Arts and Culture

Kunta Kinte festival provides a glimpse into black families' heritage

• Travel

Jersey girl

Reporter Jayne Miller enjoys trips to Ocean County and Barnegat Bay

• Howard County

African Art Museum of Maryland moves to new home

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.

• Africa

Maryland relief agencies combat famine in Africa

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.

• Africa

Baltimore man freed in Libya

• Africa

Maryland relief agencies combat famine in Africa

• Africa

Baltimore man held in Libya is free

• Middle East

Baltimore writer still missing in Libya

• Anne Arundel

Annapolis business owners and festivals battle for customers

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.

• Health

Westminster native climbs a mountain for a cause

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.

• Opinion

Crisis in the horn of Africa

• Opinion

Why fighting AIDS in Africa is absolutely in our interest

U.S. investment in the battle against AIDS in Africa is vital to Africa, the U.S. and the world

• Africa

Why fighting AIDS in Africa is absolutely in our interest

• Opinion

New nation of South Sudan needs a hand up

• Africa

Maryland lawmakers split on Libya

• Africa

History reborn at East Towson log cabin

East Towson log cabin 'living history'

• Africa

Cardin supports Libya resolution

• Op-eds

Immigration: an American success story

Manhattan Institute expert says that despite all the controversy, the U.S. generally gets immigration right

• Politics

Bartlett, colleagues, sue Obama over Libya

• Opinion

Strauss-Kahn, Schwarzenegger scandals: a confluence of race and class, sex and power

The scandals encircling the French politician and the former governor of California conjure major cultural taboos and unpleasant history

• Africa

A look at Civilized World by Susi Wyss

• Africa

Ruppersberger proposes paying for R&R travel

• Anne Arundel

Commodore Mayo: A man of adventure and tragedy

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.

• Opinion

Conspiracy theory

Latest documentation of President Obama's birth unlikely to silence the birthers

• Maryland

Schaefer making one final tour through Baltimore

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.

• Africa

Gov. Schaefer and his African violets

• Opinion

Social enterprises: when non-profits and for-profits collide!

• Middle East

Journalist from Baltimore is missing in Libya

• Opinion

Why Libya?

• Opinion

War in Libya is a mistaken American adventure

• Africa

Senator: Why did the Fed bail out Gadhafi?

• Africa

Bartlett presses Sec. Gates on Libya costs

• Africa

The Obama doctrine

• Africa

In Libya, fight mercenaries with mercenaries