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• Opinion

I should have known about the nature of blackface

After 69 years of life experience, even in a white bubble, I should have known that blackface isn't portrayal but ridicule. But I didn't.

• Maryland

Bringing a dark chapter to light: Maryland confronts its lynching legacy

While the gruesome practice of lynching is most closely associated with the Southern states of the former Confederacy, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country — including at least 44 in Maryland.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Sep 25, 2018

• Opinion

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Black lives don't matter

Leonard Pitts Jr.: It is hard work teaching a black child value himself in a nation where his worth is ever in question.

• Opinion

Death, destruction and ‘joie de vivre,’ in the Christmas season

Sometimes the Christmas season can feel like the 6 o’clock news, full of death and disaster. But as we wrap our brains around workable solutions to the ills of our world, the holiday season inevitably brings moments of sheer unfettered joy.

• Obituaries

Pioneering black journalist Simeon Booker, a Baltimore native, dies at age 99

Simeon Booker, a trailblazing journalist and the first full-time African-American reporter at The Washington Post, has died at the age of 99.

• Baltimore City Paper

Friday: Artist Fred Wilson in conversation with George Ciscle

Fred Wilson's "Mining the Museum," put on by The Contemporary Museum in 1992 at the Maryland Historical Society, was a landmark exhibition for both the artist

• Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday: Timothy Tyson: The Blood of Emmett Till

Feb. 8

• Entertainment

Marylanders well represented in national African-American museum

Benjamin Banneker is among dozens of Marylanders and Baltimoreans represented in a collection of approximately 40,000 artifacts — some 3,000 onsite. Objects of local origin include a stone slave auction block from Hagerstown. A pinback from the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Negro League baseball team. Colorful entertainment placards produced by Baltimore's own Globe Poster Printing Corp.

• Africa

On its 50th anniversary, Kwanzaa celebrations promote pride and provide 'a safe space'

Fifty years since Kwanzaa was created by Maryland native Maulana Karenga, its adherents say the holiday holds as much meaning as ever, offering the African-American community a chance to celebrate its accomplishments and remember where it came from.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 25, 2016

• Opinion

Pitts: Challenged by the hope of my elders

Leonard Pitts Jr. says he is worn down by the latest betrayal of black people in America: the mistrial of Walter Scott's killer.

• Opinion

Pitts: America shaped by Emmett Till's death and always will be

There is an emerging American consensus that says painful things, like Emmett Till's murder, are better off forgotten, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

BET film compellingly chronicles rise of Black Lives Matter

"Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement"  is television that matters in its own right.

By David Zurawik

May 26, 2016

• Baltimore City Paper

Top Ten Baltimore Singles of 2015

• Opinion

African America has promises to keep

There are few places more dangerous for black children than Chicago, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

Rachel Dolezal proves race not a fixed or objective fact

Rachel Dolezal thinks she's the Caitlyn Jenner of race, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Food & Drink

Young Moose and Martina Lynch release Freddie Gray protest song, 'No SunShine'

Last week, Young Moose, one of Baltimore's most popular rising young rappers, released a new video for his Freddie Gray-related protest song, "No SunShine."

By Wesley Case

May 26, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

Three artists use quilting as political statements and teaching tools at Creative Alliance's 'Evidence'

• Baltimore City Paper

Young Moose drops Freddie Gray anthem 'No SunShine'

• Entertainment

Ten more selctions announced for 2015 Maryland Film Festival

A second list of 10 films scheduled for the 2015 Maryland Film festival includes offerings from MFF vets Bobcat Goldthwaite, Todd Rohal and Alex Winter

By Jordan Bartel

Apr 16, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

The Maryland Film Festival announces the first 10 feature films in this year's lineup

• Howard Schultz

Before 'conversation on race' we need education on race

Before we can have a fruitful "conversation on race," we need to first have education on race, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

Mississippi Delta locked in the poverty of the past

Poverty and division still plague the black citizens of the Mississippi Delta, writes David Horsey.

• Baltimore City Paper

Paul Rucker's provocative 'REWIND' at the Creative Alliance links modern-day oppression and violence with US history

• Riots

King's message of civil disobedience resonates among protesters

The Rev. Jamal Bryant saw in Ferguson protests a modern incarnation of Martin Luther King's legacy.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jan 18, 2015

• Maryland

Change through peace [Editorial]

• Maryland

Eldersburg Public Library Oct. 15-21

• Opinion

JET makes its digital debut [Commentary]

JET magazine, the pocket-sized source of news about blacks since 1951, has bowed to the ages and gone digital with a new app. But its debut digital issue this month makes clear that JET is no longer the magazine for anyone who claims to be at least middle-aged.

• Opinion

JET makes its digital debut [Commentary]

• Baltimore City Paper

The Year in Local Music: One Reporter's Opinion

• Baltimore City Paper

The March on Washington at 50

• Movies

Maryland Film Festival 2014 lineup includes 'Ping Pong Summer'

The first list of 10 films scheduled for the 16th annual Maryland Film Festival includes the Ocean City-set "Ping Pong Summer."

• Opinion

Healing starts with '12 Years a Slave' [Commentary]

• Opinion

A never ending war [Commentary]

I feel like my husband and I are in the midst of this never-ending war, the same war that my parents and my grandparents fought. It is the same war that black people have been fighting in this country since American slavery was first legalized. This war is simply to keep our boys safe in a society that devalues them, suspects them, fears them and often dismisses them. It is a war that I now fear I am losing.

• Opinion

A never ending war [Commentary]

• Crime

Thousands from Baltimore expected to travel for March on Washington events

Thousands of people are expected to descend on Washington this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington civil rights event. Several events are planned for the weekend and on Wednesday, Aug. 28, the anniversary of the day of the march. Baltimore-area civil rights groups are scrambling to keep up with the demand for bus reservations.

• Emmett Till

Thousands from Baltimore expected to travel for March on Washington events

• Maryland

Jack White: Still not home in America

• Baltimore City

Calls for civil rights case follow Zimmerman verdict

The NAACP and a Baltimore mega-church pastor were among those calling Sunday for a federal civil rights case against George Zimmerman after the Florida man was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.

• Baltimore City

Calls for civil rights case follow Zimmerman verdict

• Same-Sex Marriage

No, not everything can be compared to Jim Crow

• Poetry

HoCoPoLitSo's writer-in-residence Derrick Weston Brown seeks to inspire the poet within us all

HoCoPoLitSo's writer-in-residence Derrick Weston Brown

• Opinion

Using images to change history

UMBC exhibit shows how African-Americans have portrayed themselves and been portrayed by others

• Opinion

Using images to change history

• Baltimore City Paper

UMBC show looks at the visual culture surrounding the civil rights movement

• Arts and Culture

Lewis Museum's 'Growing Up Afro' takes viewers from paper routes to picket lines

Photos focus on young newspaper boys and girls to mark Afro-American's 120th anniversary

• Latest

Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans

Even in Baltimore, where juveniles are the victims of homicides about once a month, the slaying of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has struck an unusually deep chord. Why?

• Latest

Baltimore showing solidarity with slain Fla. teen

Pastors and parishioners wear hoodies Sunday to honor Trayvon Martin, the Florida who was slain last month.

• Opinion

Trayvon Martin case: Florida's license to kill

The shooting death of Trayvon Martin shows the folly of Florida's lax gun laws

• Opinion

Trayvon Martin case: Florida's license to kill

• 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