Last December, Martha Jones, a historian at Johns Hopkins University, described in a Washington Post oped how her research had revealed that Johns Hopkins, the namesake of her institution, had owned slaves. Long thought to be an abolitionist, Mr. Hopkins, in fact, claimed at least four men as his property in 1850, and prior to that, had used Black people as collateral for a loan.

On, the latest installment of Midday Culture Connections, Tom and Dr. Sheri Parks explore the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” Shane Gillis almost…

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Dr. Gary Vikan, who retired in 2013 as director of the Walters Art Museum here in Baltimore, has spent more than 40 years -- nearly 30 of them at the…

She was a warrior for neighborhoods who stopped highways from piercing through lower Manhattan in the 1950s. Jane Jacobs was a self-taught city planner…