Black History Month

Tene Wilder joins us to talk about her career in hairstyling, and recent her work with the cast of Sinners, the Ryan Coogler film that's been nominated for a record 16 Academy Awards, including one for best makeup and hairstyling.

National Great Blacks in Wax Museum Director Dr. David Fakunle and educator Jessica "Culture Queen" Smith join us to describe the museum's historic mission and its latest educational initiatives.

An Interior Department directive has several high-profile U.S. National Parks removing so-called "partisan ideology," including information about climate change, Native American history and Black history. Will Maryland's State Parks hold the line?

Elected officials, community members celebrate Black history, with commemorative walk to Emmarts United Methodist Church.

A new book looks at the history of ads placed by formerly enslaved people who hoped to reconnect with family and loved ones.

We go On the Record with Mahalia! A gospel play at Arena Players portrays in song the life of the Queen of Gospel. Plus, at the Banneker Douglass Museum, 60 years after the Civil Rights Act--revisiting and reimagining the Civil Rights era.

The ‘Elizabeth Talford Scott Community Celebration’ will honor her creative legacy through exhibits, performances and education at nine institutions in Baltimore. Here is a preview!

We’ll go On the Record to hear about Blacktastic: A Children’s Festival of Maryland Black History and Culture. Streaming to classrooms from “Arts for Learning Maryland” … rappers, musicians and spoken-word artists bring history to life!

We’ll go On the Record to look at ways to come to grips with the legacy of lynching in Maryland--the outlook for the state’s ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission, and a book tracing a trial that was surrounded and permeated with the threat of lynching.

Two lawyers taking part in an upcoming University of Baltimore School of Law symposium on Maryland's first Black jurists join us to remember the contributions of these little-known legal pioneers.