Black History Month

Elected officials, community members celebrate Black history, with commemorative walk to Emmarts United Methodist Church.

A new book looks at the history of ads placed by formerly enslaved people who hoped to reconnect with family and loved ones.

We go On the Record with Mahalia! A gospel play at Arena Players portrays in song the life of the Queen of Gospel. Plus, at the Banneker Douglass Museum, 60 years after the Civil Rights Act--revisiting and reimagining the Civil Rights era.

The ‘Elizabeth Talford Scott Community Celebration’ will honor her creative legacy through exhibits, performances and education at nine institutions in Baltimore. Here is a preview!

We’ll go On the Record to hear about Blacktastic: A Children’s Festival of Maryland Black History and Culture. Streaming to classrooms from “Arts for Learning Maryland” … rappers, musicians and spoken-word artists bring history to life!

We’ll go On the Record to look at ways to come to grips with the legacy of lynching in Maryland--the outlook for the state’s ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission, and a book tracing a trial that was surrounded and permeated with the threat of lynching.

Two lawyers taking part in an upcoming University of Baltimore School of Law symposium on Maryland's first Black jurists join us to remember the contributions of these little-known legal pioneers.

In light of the controversy surrounding the teaching of African American history, teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools say they are seeing more interested students.

We’ll go On the Record to focus on dance as a celebration of Black History Month … and how African Americans have shaped the discipline. Have you Heard of Baltimore-born tap master Baby Laurence? How about Hiplet or Sole Defined? We get a preview!

Adam Harris, an Atlantic writer who has written a book about HBCUs, discusses last month's rash of bomb threats against these predominantly Black schools.