The Biden-Harris team has taken particular delight in pointing out the irony of the attacks on 81-year-old President Biden’s cognitive health, given Trump’s own incoherent remarks. At 78, Trump made several statements that left many people scratching their heads.
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The 2024 convention began with the unveiling the “Marylanders Cry Freedom, Civil Rights at Home and Abroad” at Baltimore City Hall, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of Maryland’s divestment from South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1984.
A family is mourning the death of a couple from Maryland who died during a trip of a lifetime – and now they are pleading with the government of Saudi Arabia to help them find where their loved ones are buried.
Four years after a racist encounter with a so-called “Karen,” Christian Cooper has earned the ultimate payback: a Daytime Emmy Award for his passionate love of birdwatching. The racially charged incident, which took place in 2020, not only spotlighted systemic racial issues but also paved the way for Cooper’s extraordinary success.
Our blood should boil when a white man likens the prosecution of 34-time felon Donald Trump to the injustices experienced by Black people under Jim Crow
Joy Bramble’s tireless efforts have not only transformed The Baltimore Times from a monthly publication into an indispensable newspaper for its readers but have also inspired a new generation of community leaders.
In “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People,” Tiya Miles—a professor of history at Harvard University and MacArthur Fellowship recipient—draws on a plethora of sources, such as newspaper accounts, dictated letters and the experiences of enslaved women in an elegant, evocative, and empathetic account of Harriet Tubman’s “faith journey.”
He would have taken any job here that paid the bills. What Bakewell didn’t envision was that the one he got — a community organizing gig — would set him on a path to power, as a civil rights leader, a property developer, a business tycoon and publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s legendary Black newspaper.
The southeast of Louisiana, dubbed “Cancer Alley,” is historically known for the proximity of toxic factory plants to its majority Black community resulting in decades of serious health issues and cancer diagnoses. Well, a new study says the conditions are even worse than we thought.
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