It’s 2019, but in cities and towns all over America, some communities remain segregated along racial lines. When 25-year-old Freddie Gray died in police custody in 2015, racial tensions in the city of ...

A new book reveals the Baltimore Sun’s shocking role in spreading racial fear in the early part of the last century. Scathing editorials about how blacks and Jews were bad for property values were ...

By Richard Rothstein. This article was first published on Economic Policy Institute. In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The ...

Like many patrons, I felt devastated and blindsided by Target’s recent announcement that it would shutter its Mondawmin Mall location in February, apparently with little conversation or negotiation ...

For more than 80 years, Morgan State University students walking down Hillen Road near the school’s entrance saw a massive red brick wall. Some thought it was a simple alley; others thought perhaps it ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Bishop Douglass recalls being a lifeguard at Baltimore's segregated swimming pool in the 1950s. Pool No. 2, as it was known, served over 100,000 Black residents in Baltimore during ...

It’s a warm summer evening and Devan Clapp is standing outside his two-story brick row house in northeast Baltimore’s Ramblewood neighborhood. The streets are quiet, with postage-stamp lawns; a ...

Ninety-year-old Joseph Parham Sr. now uses tennis as a way to stay active, but the sport holds a lot more meaning for him. BALTIMORE, Md. — Ninety-year-old Joseph Parham Sr. now uses tennis as a way ...

Baltimore County has a history of overt racial segregation. In the 1970s, it was famously described by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as a “white noose” around the city. The county executive at ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

WRONGS OF ITS FOUNDERS AND LEADERSHIP OVER THE YEARS. >> IT WAS MY DAUGHTER WHO FIRST SAID IT, HOW COME EVERYONE OVER HERE IS BLACK, AND EVERYONE OVER HERE IS WHITE? JESUS SAYS, LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN ...

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