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There is nothing wrong and much right with Donald Trump's proposed loyalty oath, Cal Thomas writes.

Long before anyone ever imagined Black History Month, the fight for many Americans was for legal equality and access. I was witness to one of these historic struggles, although I had no idea of its significance at the time. I hadn't known I was living in a segregated society anymore than a fish knows it's in water. My world — neighborhood, church, school, stores — were all white in the early 1960s. But times were changing, as we all know now, and the Civil Rights Movement was on its

If the Republican Party hopes to continue its own moment of success, it must resolve to forever lose the dog whistle it borrowed from the Dixiecrats long ago and re-embrace its civil rights legacy.

The civil rights movement needed both King and the Panthers

Frederick Douglass, the Maryland-born slave turned abolitionist leader, has become the first African-American to have his portrait hung in the governor's official residence in Annapolis.

Gov. Martin O'Malley, a presidential hopeful, has taken on yet another "pop issue," proposing that Maryland provide foster care to several thousand unaccompanied Central American minors, lest they be sent to "certain death." He has also championed abolition of capital punishment and the establishment of gay marriage, the Dream Act, and tax credits and fueling stations for electric vehicles whose technology is not ready for prime time.

Conservatives have cloaked American racism under the guise of political debate, writes Leonard Pitts Jr.

The crowd that gathers to watch an attack without intervening is just as bad as the perpetrator.

This was the promise: No longer would African-Americans be forced to pick up their meals from the back door of restaurants. No longer would they need to fear being unable to find lodgings on their way home from a trip.

They gathered in a parking lot at Pimlico Race Course on Monday morning and tossed leavened leftovers into more than two dozen incinerating barrels, burning to a crisp everything from slices of pizza to boxes of Cheerios to dry grains.

A. Dwight Pettit's 'Under Color of Law' details his case to gain admission to Aberdeen High School in 1960

Liberals' response to illegal immigration not grounded in reality

A Ku Klux Klan group plans to hold its first public meeting in a Cecil County government building on Friday.

On Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan members planted a bomb in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four young black girls. One of those girls was Braddock's 14-year-old sister, Carole Robertson.

Revered as a "gentleman in the finest sense of the word, remarkable convert-maker and a friend of the benighted," Father Vincent Warren drove into rural Virginia one September night to share the word of God. He had no idea the treachery that awaited.

Politicians are the really annoying beggars, not the poor people in the streets

I wonder if my Laurel friends and neighbors are aware of what's been happening in the military lately. Those who defend our freedoms have been losing theirs; instances of religious persecution in the military have become a somewhat regular occurrence.

A test shown to Arundel High School students as part of a lesson about racial bias raised objections from parents and prompted apologies from the Anne Arundel County school system, officials acknowledged Thursday.

Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a widely influential educator, reflected Sunday on the 50th anniversary of the daylight bombing of the Birmingham church.

On a Civil War battlefield where tens of thousands of men clashed fifteen decades ago, eight Ku Klux Klan members unfurled their group's banner Saturday afternoon and called for a new uprising to oust President Obama.

Liberals have distorted the meaning of King's dream

I am writing in regards to the recent article published in The Aegis about the Civil War and my complete distaste for it.

Photography dominates this year's exhibit, with powerful imagery from Gabriela Bulisova, Larry Cook, Nate Larson and Louis Palu.

Slaying of Marylander William Lewis Moore in 1963 still unsolved

Calls for Boston bombing suspect to be tried as an enemy combatant are irresponsible, dangerous and unconstitutional but not terribly surprising

The movie "42" omits the story of Baltimore sportswriter Sam Lacy, but Jackie Robinson himself never forgot it.

Towson University is trying to reassure its student population and address the concerns of national civil rights groups after a pro-white race student group recently announced it would conduct crime-watching patrols at night.

Set in 1937, "Pullman Porter Blues" at Arena Stage is the story of three generations of African-American pullman car porters, the highly-trained, uniformed men who took care of every need, around the clock, of first-class, sleeping car passengers. Seeing the play opens a flood of memories of family members who worked as pullman porters, and other who used the railroad for hasty retreats.