Black History

The event commemorates the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama, when civil rights activists protesting barriers to Black voting rights were attacked by state troopers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Guest host Dr. Carla Hayden, ex-Librarian of Congress and former CEO of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library, explores Black history books, talks with the Pratt's current CEO and meets members of a youth literacy group.

Maryland’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has submitted final report to lawmakers after six years of researching lynching between 1854 and 1933.

Shake & Bake Family Fun Center is a fabulous neighborhood recreation center and gathering place in Upton.

Little Willie Adams, a Baltimore businessman, made significant impacts in entertainment, politics, and business.

“[W]e need to be mindful of never, ever allowing something like this to happen again," said state Sen. Michael Jackson.

Anne Arundel County dedicated a memorial listing the names of 1,727 patients who died at the Crownsville state hospital between 1912 and 1965 and were buried in mostly unmarked graves.

'King of the North' author Jeanne Theoharis shows us how Dr. King’s struggles for racial justice in the North, Midwest and West were as significant as the work he did in his native South.

In her third book of narrative history, Baltimore-based journalist and author Elaine Weiss documents the courageous efforts from 1955-1970 to secure full equality for African Americans.

In The Trouble of Color, a historian explores America's color lines and how racial classification impacts Black families and identity.