ANNAPOLIS — Black alumni of the U.S. Naval Academy are celebrating the life of its first black graduate, who opened doors to them. A memorial service was held Wednesday to put the ashes of Wesley Brown in a columbarium on ...

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WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities. There is no official record-keeping system ...

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PITTSBURGH — A black man who quit working at a suburban Pittsburgh Panera Bread restaurant last year has sued the franchisee, saying the company doesn’t want blacks in positions where they interact with the public. Warren, Ohio-based Covelli Enterprises says ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s fourth- and eighth-graders each showed improvements in reading compared to results from tests they took two years ago, but eighth-graders performed about the same in math, according to results from the National Assessment of Education Progress released ...

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CHICAGO — Some 6,000 African Americans who passed a Chicago Fire Department entrance exam nearly 16 years ago will walk away with either jobs or cash under a federal court order entered Wednesday. The city of Chicago must hire 111 ...

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It was a proud day for Maryland and for five distinguished members of the state bar last week when they were inducted into the hall of fame of the National Bar Association as the organization met in Baltimore for its ...

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The nation’s largest association of black judges and attorneys is meeting in Baltimore this week to discuss issues facing the legal community and to honor Maryland’s top jurist and other luminaries of the state’s bench and bar. The National Bar ...

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Echoing decades-old racial profiling allegations, a Philadelphia man says Maryland State Police troopers stopped him three times in two months because he is black, then pursued trumped-up charges that cost him 20 days in jail after he filed a Public ...

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BALTIMORE — Black and Jewish community leaders will meet to discuss the arrest of an Orthodox Jewish member of a community patrol group charged with assaulting a black teenager. Community leaders meeting Wednesday say they want to preserve decades of ...

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BOWIE — On the corner of Collington Road and Route 301, a bright blue poster screams the Democratic Party’s wishful thinking at passing cars: “We’ve got your back President Obama.” The poster, not quite big enough to qualify as a ...

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