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Stacia Brown's voice pours through speakers like velvet as she helps deliver a collection of narratives from some of the city's long-standing, nostalgia-inducing sites in her podcast "Baltimore: The Rise of Charm City."

Some of the top boys and girls basketball teams in the area will compete Thursday through Saturday at the 19th Baltimore City Public Schools Basketball Academy. But the games are just part of the three-day event at Morgan State University.

Baltimore's National Great Blacks in Wax Museum moves forward slowly, but steadily with plans for a $75 million expansion that would quadruple its footprint, erecting a new state-of-the art institution in one of the city's more challenged communities.

Baltimore Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old — the second in as many days.

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.

Fitness is a big New Year's resolution, so we talk to people about that at free Zumba exercise class at Y of Central Maryland's Waverly branch.

Effort to honor former Colts running back Lenny Moore with statue picks up steam.

Thomas Saunders of Renaissance Productions and Tours been leading groups on tours around Baltimore to sites that have significance in African-American history.

Aquarium, zoo, museums closing because of snowstorm

After a year away, the Basketball Academy returns to a college campus, Morgan State, for the 17th annual event that combines academics and service learning with three days of top-notch high school boys and girls basketball Thursday through Saturday.

Lonnie Harris, a retired Continental Can Co. worker and an active church member, died Jan. 3 of respiratory failure.

Youman Fullard Sr., who fulfilled a lifelong dream of owning his own restaurant when he and his wife took over ownership of the Yellow Bowl Restaurant on Greenmount Avenue, died Sunday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 73.

Osborne A. Payne, a former educator who became a successful trailblazing Baltimore businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died Tuesday from Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia.

Baltimore Fashion Week organizer Sharan Nixon still owes model, Scottish Rite Masonic Center

Planners hope to keep boaters happy and safe during the Star-Spangled Sailabration in Baltimore Harbor

After decades of neglect, the city is finally beginning to promote Baltimore as a destination for African-American tourism in a significant way

Where the passengers on the tour bus rolling west on North Avenue saw blocks of crumbling and abandoned buildings and overgrown lots, Lou Fields envisioned another Pratt Street in the making.