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In all efforts, Mary Antonia “Toni” Keane was a healer. She reached for common ground, even as she encouraged people to hold on to the ancient cultural differences that are their great comforts, and their exquisite differences.
Read MoreMrs. Bush leaves us not only with a remarkable story but a profoundly disturbing question: how has our political world so badly lost its way?
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Baltimore Humane Society Executive Director Christine DeCorse is shown here with Gov. Larry Hogan in 2018 . (Provided photo)
Now that the Maryland General Assembly has wrapped things up in Annapolis, Gov. Larry Hogan can start focusing on the business of getting re-elected in a state that registers two-to-one Democrat.
Read MorePimlico remains vulnerable – financially, structurally, and historically. And the track’s vulnerability is felt by all surrounding neighbors.
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The "private office" of Daniel Brozowsky, aka "Nookie the Bookie," was reportedly a sidewalk phone booth around Hayward and Park Heights avenues, near Pimlico Race Course.
It’s been operating as a racetrack since 1870. So computing the odds, and doing some simple arithmetic, what’s the likelihood that Pimlico will still be around to celebrate its 150th birthday two years from now?
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit in 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images via JTA)
First came news that Washington was on fire, and then reports that dozens of American cities were ablaze. Baltimore stayed eerily calm, but only for 24 hours.
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A Baltimore native, Spiro T. Agnew served as U.S. vice president from 1969 to his resignation in 1973. (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
He might have become president. That’s the other thing to remember about Spiro Agnew.
Read MoreBob Dylan’s nearly 77, so he gets lumped in with the great quartet of singer-songwriters who arrived roughly half a century ago and made American pop music finally cast off its juvenile simplicity.
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Baltimore native and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (center) is shown here speaking with colleagues in 1954. (Courtesy Villanova Law Library, Flickr)
The Browns enlisted the lead attorney for the NAACP, a young fellow out of Baltimore named Thurgood Marshall, and in 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and needed to be integrated speedily.
Read MoreThe rioters were out of control, and many seemed out of their minds, some with rage and grief over the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Read MoreNobody could have imagined such a heart-soaring moment as last weekend’s March for Our Lives, because nobody could have imagined a need for so many people to gather, in so many hundreds of demonstrations across the country, to join in national chorus declaring, Enough.
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