Black History Month

Columbia’s downtown redevelopment is finally happening after eight years in the making. We ask Howard County Executive Ken Ulman and planner Mark Thompson … what needs to happen in housing, retail space and transit to change suburban to urban.

Last February, Loyola professor Kaye Whitehead called for an end to Black History Month, saying we needed to remember black Americans 365 days of the year.  She's changed her mind. We ask her why.

J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Naomi's Flight" at the Baltimore Theatre Project.

February 25, 2013

We ask the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene about the landscape of substance abuse in Maryland, beyond hard drugs, alcohol, and prescription drugs.

Do we need black history month? That’s a question being posed this February by a number of members of the African-American community. We talk with two professors who debate its merits.