As a 9-year-old girl in China, Dottie Li regularly listened to Voice of America’s Mandarin broadcast. The program “opened my eyes and as I listened, the world opened to me. I didn’t know there were other things other than what was in front of me in China, the little view that I had as a ...

During a Bible study group years ago, Harris Floyd heard a member say a quote from Sir Winston Churchill. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Floyd now has the quote displayed in multiple locations including on the wall of her home office and saved on ...

Four years ago, Jena Bell had just lost her job and her marriage of 24 years had recently ended. To say she’s bounced back from that low point is like saying the world-champion Washington Nationals bounced back from their slow start last season. After taking a year off to do some soul-searching and ponder her ...

We’ve spent much of 2020 in a fight for our lives while trying to protect our livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic that forced stay-at-home orders and other restrictions to help save lives also hindered many businesses – particularly the small businesses that make up the fabric of our communities. During this period of uncertainty, we again ...

Nakita Reed, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA, an associate with Quinn Evans, has been selected as a member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative Advisory Committee. The new program, led by a partnership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford ...

The percentage of heart attack survivors who experienced another one within a year fell between 2008 and 2017, according to research showing the greatest overall decline was in women. Yet, a separate new survey of women shows heart disease awareness also has dipped over the past decade among those younger than 65. Deaths from heart ...

Sure, there were the RBG bobbleheads, the Halloween getups, the lace collars, the workout videos. The “I dissent” T-shirts, the refrigerator magnets, the onesies for babies or costumes for cats. And yes, the face masks, with slogans like: “You can’t spell TRUTH without RUTH.” But the pop culture status that Ruth Bader Ginsburg found — ...

The most gratifying words of praise I’ve ever received were also the tersest: “Just right,” penciled in the margin of a draft opinion I had written as a clerk at the Supreme Court. The author of those words, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died Friday at 87. She will be remembered as a woman who always ...

Danielle Torain grew up in Baltimore, and her career included work in the mayor’s office before taking over as the executive director of the Open Society Institute Baltimore early in 2020. Having young people of color in positions leading organizations, she said, provides an important context for organizations like her own dedicated to such issues ...

Executive Alliance announced Tuesday that Executive Director Luwanda Jenkins is stepping down from that role in October. A search for Jenkins’ replacement has begun. Jenkins had been executive director for the Baltimore-based women’s network for the past two years. She will now focus more on her role as a senior government relations associate with the ...

Owings Mills-based Devaney & Associates, an advertising, marketing and public relations agency, won a Gold Award and was named “Best in Show” in the Best Marketing/Advertising Campaign category in the 28th annual National Mature Media Awards Program. The program, presented by the Mature Market Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for the senior market, recognizes the nation’s ...

Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. But scientists are affected by conscious and unconscious biases, just as people in other fields are. Studies of birds’ vocal behavior clearly show how research approaches can be affected by the people who do the work. For more than 150 years, dating back at least to Charles Darwin’s writings ...

Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa, a 475-plus unit franchise that brings luxury spa experiences to the masses, is coming to Brandywine. Prince George’s County business owners and mother-daughter trio Toya Evans, Lauren Williamson and Chanel Grant have signed on to open their first Hand & Stone location this fall. With a passion for ...

Esther E. McCready, DPS (Hon.), DIN ’53, the first African American to gain admittance to the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON), died Sept. 2 after a lengthy illness. She was 89. In 1950 at only 19 years old, McCready pursued a Maryland Court of Appeals decision after UMSON originally denied her admission. Earlier, ...

With the nonprofit sector emerging as the third-largest workforce in the U.S. economy, Maryland universities increasingly are offering programs to train students for careers in those fields. No university has been more aggressive in this regard than Coppin State University, the only school in the University System of Maryland that offers a bachelor’s degree in nonprofit leadership. Coppin ...

It has been five months since COVID-19 tightened its grip on America’s economy and the repercussions weigh most heavily on small business owners, and disproportionately on female business owners across the nation by several measures. As of the start of the year, women-owned entities represented 42% of all businesses — nearly 13 million in total ...

Courtney Sagal was promoted to deputy director of Irvine Nature Center, a 45 year-old environmental education organization. Having risen through the ranks over the past 12 years, Sagal has honed her operational management skills and is ready to help the organization execute its newly approved strategic plan. She is a graduate of Villa Julie College, now Stevenson ...

Keswick announced Monday it named Maria Darby as chief operating officer of the Baltimore-based elder care provider. Darby was formerly executive vice president and has been with the health care organization since 2014. In this new role, Darby is responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of Keswick’s strategic and operational initiatives on campus and in the community. She has comprehensive enterprise-wide responsibilities ...