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Baltimore leaders plan to bus residents to Annapolis for a “big rally to keep the Preakness in Baltimore.” It comes as General Assembly lawmakers consider bills central to the future of horse racing in Maryland — and pivotal to the location of the Preakness Stakes, part of the Triple Crown.

Myriad Carroll County high school students as they read poetry, speeches, sang songs and presented artwork at the fifth annual African-American Read-In Monday evening — a collaboration between Carroll County Public Schools, the Carroll County Public Library, the NAACP and Carroll Arts Center.

The Baltimore City school board is preparing to vote in January on the next round of recommended closures. Two traditional public schools and four public charters could potentially be shut down by the end of the school year. That would bring the total number of schools closed since 2004 to 75.

Recently I asked three of my teen-aged great nephews about the last time they’d been assigned to read books written by black authors at their schools. All three answered with a resounding: “never.” Thus far in their educations, not one of their teachers has exposed them to black literature.

Excluding foreigners has never been a dominant part of American patriotism, says Robert Reich.

After public outcry, Maryland prison officials have reversed a new policy that limited inmates' access to books.

The Park Heights Black Sox, a co-ed youth baseball team, kicked off its season Saturday against the Woodlawn Yankees.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is producing some of the nation’s best young scientists. The Baltimore Sun went inside the Meyerhoff Scholars Program to learn the secret.

Baltimore officials are seeking public input over the next few weeks advising how $12 million from the city’s new youth fund should be distributed. 

Daniel C. Brewington, a veteran Baltimore public schools educator who served in the Army during World War II, died Feb. 24 from congestive heart failure at Arbor Terrace Senior Living in Lanham. The former longtime Northwest Baltimore resident was 95.

One afternoon during our social studies block, I did a lesson on race using the characters of “Sesame Street.” I asked my 6- and 7- year-old students: What race would Big Bird, Oscar, Elmo and Cookie Monster be if they were people and why? I choked back tears as I read the results out loud.

Havre de Grace leaders encourage people to contribute funds to help Havre de Grace Colored School Foundation purchase former school building as the Monday deadline to purchase the building approaches.

We are forgetting the real meaning of America — the ideals on which our nation was built, says Robert Reich.

"Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools,” began last year in Seattle and Philadelphia. This year, more than 20 cities took part, including Baltimore, Chicago and New York City.

The black caucus for the NCTE established the African American Read-In as a national event in 1990, Doolan said, but the local event has a collaboration between the school system, the Carroll County Public Library and the Carroll County chapter of the NAACP since 2015.

The Aziz Ansari sexual misconduct story is particularly disturbing because it raises some uncomfortable questions about the nature and terms of sexual ethics in casual “hook-up” culture and about the consequences of blurred lines in sexual consent.

PeacePlayers International is hosting basketball events for kids in three cities, including in Park Heights in Baltimore, to promote equality and change perceptions. I

With two fatal shootings Tuesday night, the recent reclassification of a decades-old shooting as a killing and another homicide Wednesday evening, Baltimore has hit 343 homicides in 2017, and a new record for killings per capita.

A man was killed and two others were injured in shootings in Baltimore on Tuesday, police said.

Bertha Newton Rhodes, who was an early operator of tours around Baltimore that featured African-American historic and cultural sites, died in her sleep Nov. 30 at Shangri-La Assisted Living in Ellicott City.

Growing up, as I dealt with the trauma of losing both my parents due to illness and then struggled with adult authority, receiving a well-rounded education, including the arts, from outstanding teachers saved my life.

It would be un-American not to protest the injustices Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players are calling attention to.

Local writer Kondwani Fidel's most recent essay, essay “How a young boy has been decaying in Baltimore since age 10: A Death Note," went viral

While violence elsewhere captures national attention, Baltimore City's violence continues at record levels. Aside from the murders, there were also 18

Two teen boys and an older auto-repair shop owner shot under unclear circumstances in Northwest Baltimore are among the latest victims in a city experiencing homicides at an unprecedented pace.

Six people were shot in Baltimore on Thursday, with one of them killed, police said.

The Langston Hughes Elementary School closed in 2015.

From grade school and beyond, the majority of my life experiences were solely centered around Jewish interaction and connection. So I decided to spend a summer at Morgan State University.

According to those who knew him, Victorious Swift was living up to his colorful name — in the fast lane on a path to success — when it all got ripped away.

Baltimore police on Monday released the names of three men who were killed in recent shootings in the city.

Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miller helped pave the way for today's integrated military.

About 13 Howard County and Laurel congregations will hold an interfaith Thanksgiving music service at Temple Isaiah in Fulton to benefit both Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services and Ellicott City flood relief.

The Baltimore native and 2016 MacArthur award recipient helped redefine art in America

"Why do you want to win?" Victor "Slangston Hughes" Rodgers, 33, asks an eager group of five young poets at the Edward R. Murrow Park in

The issue should not be whether Colin Kaepernick will stand up for America, but whether America will finally stand up for him, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

The death of Korryn Gaines is now under the microscope of official investigation and social media deconstruction. But I have been drawn to one aspect of what is now known about the 23-year-old mother of two who held Baltimore County police officers at bay for seven hours last week before they gunned her down and wounded her 5-year-old son. She instructed her son, Kodi, to view police as enemies who must be resisted: "You fight them. They are not for us."

Three-star wide receiver Emmanuel Greene of IMG Academy (Fla.) picked Central Florida over a group of schools that included Maryland, UCLA and others.

Two men were shot and injured in separate incidents in Baltimore overnight, including one man who was robbed while riding his bike, police said.

State officials are focusing on about 60 precincts in their review of irregularities in Baltimore's primary election, a process they said would be open to the public all day Wednesday after a judge was asked to intervene.

Baltimore election officials now say that despite the snags, high voter turnout and new voting devices, the election went smoothly. But the last-minute snafus — including temporarily missing ballots and precinct confusion among some judges — have raised questions about the city's election preparedness.

Baltimore's election board made too many mistakes to be ignored

The race for Baltimore mayor may not yet be over for the two leading Democrats in last week's primary election: Sheila Dixon told The Sun she is exploring legal options to possibly challenge the results that gave state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh a narrow victory.

The glamor of the 1920's are not siloed off from, nor to they attempt to mask the ugliest threads in history. This is where Single Carrot's newest play, conceived by the ensemble, written by Genevieve de Mahy, and directed by Alix Fenhagen and Steven Krigel, makes its greatest strides. "Something Like Jazz Music" is a shuffled cluster of vignettes, blended to erase the lines between flapper charm, sexism, and racial violence—a fury that begins with the unveiling of misplaced luggage in a

The Carroll Arts Center, at 91 W. Main St. in Westminster, will host its annual Carroll County Public Schools African-American Read-In Feb. 25.

Harford County joins the rest of the country this month in celebrating the achievements and accomplishments of African-Americans during Black History Monday.

Community members will not allow three schools slated for closure next year to be shuttered without continuing to put up a fight, after the Carroll County Board of Education voted last month to close three schools – Charles Carroll Elementary, New Windsor Middle and North Carroll High, to reduce the school system's operating costs.

Baltimore police have arrested and charged this week a 24-year-old man in an October murder.

A production of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" finds Peabody Opera stretching effectively.