Frederick Douglass

Softball playoffs: One bad inning costs Hammond

2012-05-14 20:18:00

Most Howard County teams have survived to play another day — because their playoff games were rained out Monday. But Hammond, with two big upsets under its belt in the last week of the regular season and a first-round, 9-5 win over J.M. Bennett, was...

Rudolph James Redd Sr., engineer

2012-05-03 11:25:00

Rudolph James "Rudy" Redd Sr., an engineer who spent his nearly 40-year career with the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground and was an advocate for the mentally ill, died April 27 of a cardiac arrest at his home...

Michael Penny Carter

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Michael Penny Carter, a longtime public schools and community activist who had been director of family and community engagement for the Baltimore school system, died Tuesday of prostate cancer at a sister's home in West Baltimore. The Harlem Park...

Woman dies after crash with suspect being pursued by city police

2012-04-17 16:18:00

[This post has been updated. The original version remains intact below] A 22-year-old woman was killed and her infant daughter injured Monday night after a man eluding city police ran a red light and plowed into her vehicle in West Baltimore, authorities...

Baltimore's marble lady stepping down from Calvert Street

2012-04-21 14:32:21

Lady Baltimore has withstood much in 189 years perched overlooking Courthouse Square. She has lost both of her arms over the decades — one of them, holding high a wreath that signifies service to the republic, was sheared off by a gust of wind in...

Joseph Russ

2012-04-23 14:18:38

Joseph Russ, a West Baltimore mortician who was active in his industry for nearly 70 years, died of heart disease April 16 at his West Baltimore home. He was 98. Born in Baltimore and raised on Brunt Street, he was a 1933 graduate of Frederick Douglass...

High school wrap-up

2012-02-16 11:39:00

Indoor track 2A Central Regional (Feb. 6 at 5th Regiment Armory) Girls team scores: 1. Glenelg, 94 points; 2. Oakland Mills, 86; 3. Long Reach, 73; 4. Carver Vo-Tech, 48; 5. Loch Raven, 42; 6. Marriotts Ridge, 32; 7. Owings Mills, 28; 8. Randallstown,...

Frederick Douglass' enduring lessons

2012-02-20 03:00:00

Frederick Douglass once said that from his "slave experience" he was able to "elaborate quite a lengthy chapter of political philosophy, applicable to the American people." In addition to his slave experience, the Eastern Shore native elaborated quite a...

Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum

2012-02-22 14:57:28

When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight. A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...

Indoor track: Glenelg's Richardson stars at 2A state meet

2012-02-20 18:53:00

Running in the slower heat, Glenelg's Blake Richardson realized the odds were stacked against him. Yet as the Gladiator senior stepped to the starting line for the 500-meter run at the 2A State championships Monday, he kept telling himself to just focus...

3 high school buses crash; 34 teens sent to hospital

2012-03-19 16:38:00

Three school buses crashed into one another Monday afternoon in Upper Marlboro, sending 34 high schoolers to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Paramedics triaged 75 students on the scene, according to Prince George's County Fire and Emergency...

Safe Streets violence mediation program coming to West Baltimore

2012-03-19 17:13:18

Franklin Lance knows his West Baltimore neighborhood can be great — located near to Druid Hill Park, it's home to the city's biggest shopping mall, a public university, and a network of active churches and community groups. But like so many areas...

Once in awhile, we take time to re-evaluate our eco-friendliness. This annual event from Baltimore Green Works (ticket revenue helps underwrite the group's Sustainable Speaker Series) always puts us in check. Plus, there's creative local food and live music. 7 p.m. Friday.

2012-03-12 15:15:00

"Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity." -- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist

2012-02-16 09:11:35

This could be a big one but we don't have much more to go now than the super cool logo.

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