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The 20-year-old man who police believed was a suspect in the killing of 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott was expected to be released from jail Wednesday after two months without being charged in the murder.

The panel of black attorneys answered questions about police brutality and racial profiling, amid other concerns during the seminar, Conscious Operations during Police Stops, or "C.O.P.S.," at the Empowerment Temple Church Tuesday night.

With the parents of Michael Brown in his congregation, the pastor of a North Baltimore AME church announced an initiative Sunday aimed at educating people on what they should and should not do when stopped by police

With the shooting of an unarmed teenager in Missouri weighing on their minds, politicians, church leaders and members of the public gathered at a Northwest Baltimore Church Tuesday night to consider the relationship between black people and the police.

Hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the Inner Harbor Thursday evening to protest police misconduct and brutality and stand in solidarity with residents of Ferguson, Mo., where the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old has sparked days of civil unrest.

A cadre of spiritual giants was inducted Saturday into the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, as the East Baltimore gallery looks to expand in its third decade.

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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's police commissioner and several African-American religious leaders joined Saturday night to urge residents to express their reaction peacefully after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Baltimore's police commissioner and several African-American religious leaders joined Saturday night to urge residents to express their reaction peacefully after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin.

The CEO and dean of Johns Hopkins Medicine issued a letter to faculty and students Friday that said recent remarks made by famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson were inconsistent with the culture of the institution.

Worshipers at a West Baltimore church donated more than 1,000 pieces of clothing to a prison re-entry program as part of their Easter Sunday services.

The churches are placing a particular emphasis on African-American voters because many are becoming open to same-sex marriage after President Barack Obama and the NAACP's board of directors announced their support for it.

Baltimore pastor Donte Hickman took exception to a statement made in the Huffington Post Friday by Baltimore pastor Jamal Bryant who was quoted saying church leaders supporting same-sex marriage are "hypocrites."

The American Cancer Society is looking for thousands of volunteers to participate in a long-term study that will look at the genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors that cause cancer.

Almost two months after Christopher Brown died outside a Randallstown home, the family of the slain teen continues to ask that the state's attorney's office seek murder charges against the Baltimore County police officer accused in his death.