Tag: Maryland

  • “There is nothing ‘black’ about rioting”: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams,…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Yumi, are a historic first couple The Washington Post 2015-01-23 Michael S. Rosenwald, Staff Writer She was a painter displaying her abstract landscapes, a single mother of three daughters who’d grown up on a chicken farm in South Korea. He was a wealthy bachelor with more interest…

  • Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor’s race in stunning upset The Washington Post 2014-11-05 John Wagner, Maryland Political Reporter Jenna Johnson, Maryland Political Reporter Republican businessman Larry Hogan pulled off a stunning upset in heavily Democratic Maryland on Tuesday, winning the governor’s race against Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown by relentlessly promising to roll back…

  • Maryland’s Never Elected A Black Governor, But Neither Have 47 Other States WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore Maryland 2014-10-24 Christopher Connelly, Political Reporter Before President Barack Obama joined Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on stage at a get out the vote rally in Prince George’s County Sunday, Dr. Grainger Browning of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington…

  • Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 Genealogical Publishing Company 2000 392 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806350424 Paul Heinegg As he did for Free Blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Heinegg has reconstructed the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the…

  • Marylander of the Year: Benjamin Todd Jealous [Editorial] The Baltimore Sun 2013-12-28 Our view: Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time In the spring of 2008, as the prospect that America would elect its first black president became more and…

  • A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States Human Heredity Volume 6, Number 3, 1956/1957 DOI: 10.1159/000150862 pages 410–412 C. J. Witkop National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. There are known to exist in the eastern part of…

  • Prince George’s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family AFRO Prince George’s County News 2013-10-16 Zenitha Prince, Special to the AFRO He’s a former two-term state’s attorney for Prince George’s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She’s the chairman of the Prince…

  • Ivey describes herself as ‘Trayvon Martin’s mom’ The Baltimore Sun 2013-10-14 Erin Cox (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun) Gansler’s running mate is first African-American woman to seek lieutenant governor post After Del. Jolene Ivey told a Baltimore crowd she hopes to be Maryland’s first African-American female lieutenant governor, she discussed what it means to be…