The revolution Baltimore worked hard to create in protesting Freddie Gray's death in police custody was not televised for what it truly was or is. The revolution was televised as angry citizens burning flags, looting stores and breaking police car windows. This is a skewed portrayal of the protests; it is what the media chose to portray.
Morgan State President David Wilson, an Alabama resident who grew up about an hour from the site of the 1965 Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, plans to return to the area for this weekend¿s 50th Anniversary commemoration.
Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
About 150 protesters gathered Thursday at Lawyers Mall in Annapolis morning before marching to the House of Delegates, where they declared their intention to regularly attend Maryland's General Assembly.
Eleanor Zatella Giles, a longtime East Baltimore activist who fought a proposed prison and advocated for her community, died at Gilchrist Hospice Care following a lengthy illness on Dec. 26. She was 85.
Labor activists calling for increased wages for Walmart workers planned about 1,500 demonstrations to occur nationwide on Friday, including at Walmarts in Towson and Arbutus.
Half a century ago this Wednesday, as a bright sun climbed the sky above downtown Washington, Douglas B. Sands, then 29, stood a few hundred feet from the Lincoln Memorial and looked out over the National Mall in wonder.
A group of students at Johns Hopkins is reviving a campus anti-abortion group that members say will perform "sidewalk counseling" — attempting to discourage pregnant women entering clinics from going through with the procedure.
Days after the Obama administration threatened widespread furloughs one of Maryland's largest federal agencies, the Social Security Administration said it might shoulder the deep, across-the-board spending cuts of the sequester without sending any of its full-time employees home.
Maryland employers added 1,500 jobs in March — thanks entirely to growth in the private sector — but the state's unemployment rate inched up as the pool of would-be workers expanded more rapidly.
Chessie M. Brailey, a civil rights activist and wife of the late former state legislator F. Troy Brailey, died Dec. 16 from complications of dementia at her daughter's Harbor Court condominium. She was 94.
By By Frederick N. Rasmussen and The Baltimore Sun
The violent crackdown on protesters in Cairo is showing the true colors of the Egyptian military and revealed its unwillingness to cede control of the government to civilian rule in any meaningful way
City officials are preparing to award three private groups contracts to run recreation centers this week, following a string of delays, and have vowed to keep all of the city's centers open through June.
Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, organizers said.
Baltimore police in riot gear moved in full force but peacefully evicted protesters with the Occupy Baltimore movement from the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square during the early morning hours Tuesday.
Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent interview with ABC's Barbara Walters denying he had any role in the killing of thousands of demonstrators protesting his rule is evidence he is either delusional or thinks the rest of us are
Baltimore has once again denied a permit for the Occupy encampment to stay until April. Rather than waiting for a police raid, the protesters should figure out how to leave on their own terms.
Baltimore officials denied a second request by Occupy Baltimore protesters to obtain permits to use in McKeldin Square, the Inner Harbor park where the group has been entrenched since early October.
Robert Reich says the Supreme Court's campaign finance decisions have given corporations unlimited power to influence the political process, but real live protesters are getting kicked out of the streets.
Occupy Baltimore protesters have asked city officials for permission to remain in an Inner Harbor park until April, according to an application submitted to the city.
The Occupy protest movement needs to grow up and develop specific goals to address their concerns about the unhealthy concentration of wealth and power.
About 15 protesters were asked to leave a speech by Karl Rove at Johns Hopkins University after staging "organized disruption," a university official said.
