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Baca, 74, who's in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, headed the nation's largest sheriff's department for 15 years before resigning in 2014 as the jail abuse scandal grew.

Famous Olympic athlete and activist John Carlos joins Midday to discuss his Lifetime Grand Visionary Award and activism during the turbulent 1960's.

Robert W. Lee IV said some members of his congregation were uncomfortable with the media attention he received after his speech against racism and hate on MTV's Video Music Awards in August.

The Swords Into Plowshares project, led by the Jefferson School American Heritage Center, a local Black-led nonprofit, involves the statute at the heart of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

Here’s a Stoop Story from Chef John Shields about … having the courage to detour from your dream.

The Chinese American physicist, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco.

Robert W. Lee tells NPR's Michel Martin what it's like to grapple with the legacy of his ancestor, Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He wrote about this in a memoir, "A Sin by Any Other Name."

Lee's heist thriller centers on five Black veterans who return to Vietnam. Lee says one scene with Chadwick Boseman took on particular resonance after the actor's death from cancer in August 2020.

Director Lee Isaac Chung talks to NPR's Scott Detrow about his latest film, Twisters. He shot it on location in Oklahoma, using local extras on set who know what it’s like to face a tornado.

One of the best albums of 2024, Diamond Jubilee, isn't on streaming services. The artist who released it, Cindy Lee, has rejected the streaming era's demands to create something entirely their own.

His sentencing is the culmination of a months-long criminal trial that resulted in the first successful prosecution of pharmaceutical executives tied to the opioid epidemic.

The publisher Harper is releasing a new book by Harper in July — Harper Lee that is. It's a follow-up to To Kill A Mockingbird, though it was actually written first.

Just a few months after announcing plans for a tiki bar in Sparrows Point, the team behind Lee's Pint & Shell in Canton has another bar and restaurant in…

The leading candidates for mayor in Baltimore city take the stage at the University of Baltimore to debate the issues ahead of the May 14 primary.

Winds on Cape Cod could gust as high as 50 to 60 mph, forecasters said on Thursday. The area is now under a tropical storm warning.

Baltimore chefs John Shields of Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen and Damian Mosley of Blacksauce Kitchen drop by Studio A, with Rosemary Hall on Zoom, to offer Thanksgiving Day food tips and a few of their favorite recipes.

The Maryland congressman describes the legislative drive to counter Republican-led voter suppression.

Some activists see its removal as a symbol of change.

The city selected a proposal from the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to determine the fate of the statue.

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.