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Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a gifted author and orator, and a champion of emancipation and civil rights. But here’s something you may not…

Originally aired February 25, 2016Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a gifted author and orator, and a champion of emancipation and civil rights.…

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals orders a delay in trial of Officer Caesar Goodson, the driver of the police van that transported Freddie Gray. WYPR…

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, along with governors in more than half of US states, is asking for the resettlement of Syrian refugees to cease until the…

Suicide rates in the United States have risen by nearly a quarter since 1999, according to new federal data. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death…

The Great Recession fueled new interest in worker-owned cooperatives, in which employees double as business owners. Though rare, worker-owned co-ops are…

National Book Award winner James McBride will be at the CityLit Festival in Baltimore this weekend. His latest novel "The Good Lord Bird," depicts famous…

Tomorrow marks 150 years since John Wilkes Booth, offspring of a prominent Maryland family of actors, slipped through the back passages of Ford’s Theater…

The surge in crime this spring in Baltimore draws attention to all shootings, and especially fatal shootings. The city’s homicide statistic is 40 percent…

The tiniest creature with the deadliest of bites … Professor Chris Potter's lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is working to…

Baltimore’s tangled history, firmly in the shadow of Annapolis, has given it an inferiority complex. So says Johns Hopkins professor emeritus of political…

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Until he escaped Maryland--and slavery--at age 20, where did he…

Where can pregnant women struggling with addiction to opioids turn for help? How are infants affected by exposure to opioids?Julia Lurie, a reporter for…

Americans are doing more and more of their shopping online -- but part of what distinguishes Baltimore are the brick-and-mortar businesses that have…

In his speech to Congress, President Trump blamed a “slow and burdensome approval process” for holding up medical progress and drug development. We look…

Each year an estimated 12 million Americans get the wrong diagnosis from their doctor--a medical problem is seen as something else, missed entirely or…

Dedication and hard work really can make childhood dreams come true. We meet international musician Amit Peled. He plays the cello once owned by Pablo…

Kids stared at screens a lot before, but during the pandemic it’s estimated their screen hours, on average, have doubled: Logging in to classrooms ……

The whole world has been waiting for COVID-19 vaccines. Now that some are available, where are the doses going? Bioethicist Ruth Faden, of the Johns…

A sampling of some of the great books published this year by local authors!