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Many of the things ISIS is doing, supposedly in the name of Islam, are condemned in the Quran.

Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender are less likely to be religious than their non-LGBT peers, according to a new Gallup poll.

Pets up for adoption at the Baltimore County Humane Society.

The racial makeup of Harford Community College's student body reflects the overall population of Harford County, but college administrators must work to improve the graduation and retention rates of minority students, as well as increase the number of minority faculty and staff members, according to a progress report on cultural diversity presented to the Board of Trustees Tuesday evening.

A coalition of youth advocates in Maryland is calling on state officials to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids and young adults in schools, foster homes and detention centers across the state, saying those youth are being marginalized and bullied in spaces that should be safe for them.

The 220 miles that make up U.S. 40 in Maryland was an epicenter of historical clashes in the state with resistance culminating with a Freedom Ride less than three months after Kennedy issued his plea. On Dec. 16, 1961, as many as 700 blacks and whites descended upon dozens of still-segregated restaurants along the highway.

Featured pets up for adoption at the Baltimore County Humane Society

Legal hearings began Monday on claims by BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport's former acting fire chief that he was unfairly terminated earlier this year after raising concerns about racial bias within the department.

Featured pets available for adoption at the Baltimore County Humane Society.

Attacks on county council candidate by Hogan and others are unfair and unwarranted

In the three months leading up to Baltimore Pride this summer, organizers anxiously scrambled to cobble together an event that usually takes them a full year to plan.

In a full reversal of existing state healthcare policy, transgender state employees in Maryland can now access gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and other transition-related care under their state-provided health insurance plans.

A list of some of the dogs and cats available for adoption at the Baltimore County Humane Society.

Police Commissioner Batts is right to seek better relations with the city's transgender community

In the Obama administration, the race card has become the joker

After serving eight months in federal custody for his role in a towing scandal, former Baltimore police officer David Reeping is fighting to get his job back. He contends that investigators used him as scapegoat to avoid accusations of racial profiling from Hispanic and African-American officers convicted in the scandal, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Cox not amused by Drake's song about cheating athletes at the ESPYs

Black and copper colored jewelry beads lay around a puddle of blood in a Northwest Baltimore alley, where police said a transgender woman was brutally killed early Wednesday in a crime that bore similarities to the murder of another transgender woman last month.

One popular theory of lawyer Marilyn Mosby's upset win over incumbent State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein was that race played a deciding role in the election, helping a political newcomer oust a white prosecutor in a majority-black city.

The Anne Arundel County school board on Wednesday formally censured former member Eugene Peterson and requested he resign from the board ethics panel in response to comments he made at a June 4 board meeting criticizing the panel's effort to realign an office that monitors minority achievement.

Fifty years after passage of Civil Rights Act, Baltimore still working toward equality

Hobby Lobby ruling an affront to women's rights

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation last week into Morgan State University's handling of a reported sexual assault, as the number of colleges nationwide facing scrutiny for their response to sexual violence claims grows.

Economists should be bound by facts and reason. I simply can't embrace liberal positions on the minimum wage, climate change and gender discrimination, and call myself a scientist.

Allowing for-profit companies to opt out of contraceptive mandate sets troubling precedent that extends religion's reach and diminishes individual rights

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.

The results of primary elections in Maryland on Tuesday bode well for LGBT rights -- at least according to Equality Maryland, the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization.

When Brian Stewart accused a local fraternity chapter at Morgan State University of discriminating against him for being gay, the university stressed its commitment to diversity and began investigating. The two results, Stewart said Tuesday, were that the Alpha Iota chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi was placed on probation for breaking university discrimination policies, and Stewart became an even bigger target of harrassment on the school's Baltimore campus.

Several General Assembly incumbents were trailing opponents after early primary voting results were released Tuesday evening — but many incumbents worked to turn back tough challenges.

President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative is encountering opposition because it is too limited.

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In an effort to raise awareness of those statistics, the department's Prevention and Health Promotion Administration has teamed up with other advocacy organizations to host a "Youth Sexual Health - HIV Prevention Summit" next week.

It took decades before serious documentaries about the civil rights struggle of the 1960s began to appear.

Baltimore Pride kicked off Saturday at a new location and with new drinking rules leaving some longtime revelers a little nostalgic for the old days.

Baltimore defense attorney Gregg L. Bernstein emerged four years ago from private practice to run an aggressive campaign targeting a longtime chief prosecutor who he said had grown complacent. Now Bernstein is the one facing pointed attacks in the Democratic primary campaign.

Groups meeting regularly in Howard County

Sun's attacks on Del. Jon Cardin are unfair