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February 4, 2025
The founder of a neo-Nazi group was convicted Monday of planning an attack to create chaos in the majority-Black city.
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November 13, 2024
After a mass shooting in July 2023, a historically troubled neighborhood in Baltimore celebrates zero homicides in over a year.
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October 30, 2024
Henrietta Lacks' descendants joined the groundbreaking at the future site of the Baltimore building.
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October 17, 2024
Six construction workers died after a container ship collided with a Baltimore bridge. Now residents who relied on the Key…
Maryland State Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby
February 7, 2024
A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted Tuesday on one count of mortgage fraud, concluding a…
December 26, 2023
Baltimore police must now complete a program on emotional regulation that uses video as a learning tool and teaches brain…
Mother Mary Lange
December 20, 2023
Two Baltimore-based groups are advocating for Pope Francis to designate Black nun Mother Mary Lange with sainthood status.
Edward Garrison Draper posthumous bar admission
October 27, 2023
Judge Z. Collins Lee, who evaluated Draper in 1857, said he would be qualified “if he was a free white…
Baltimore City Hall, theGrio.com
October 23, 2023
Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins — known today as the “Harlem Park Three” — were arrested as minors…
Morgan State University, theGrio.com
October 13, 2023
The university, which has approximately 9,000 students, is investing over $22 million in security upgrades.
Henrietta Lacks thegrio.com
August 1, 2023
In their complaint, Lacks’ grandchildren and other descendants argued that her treatment illustrates a much larger issue that persists...
February 24, 2023
Baltimore officials will start developing a plan to reconnect Black neighborhoods by potentially demolishing a stretch of thoroughfare that displaced…
February 7, 2023
A Maryland woman spent months conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader based in Florida to plan an attack on Baltimore’s power…
January 20, 2023
The Holofcener family emptied their foundation’s coffers and gave $1 million to support a free Black- staffed newspaper in Baltimore.
December 22, 2022
Baltimore’s homicides surpassed 300 in 2022 for the eighth year running as gun violence remains elevated despite repeated promises from…
Baltimore Superfan Mo Gaba www.theGrio.com
July 29, 2020
Mo Gaba, a young fan of Baltimore professional sports teams, dies after a battle with cancer and the community is…
Oprah Winfrey theGrio.com
May 20, 2020
Oprah Winfrey shares on donating $12 million across the United States in COVID-19 relief efforts.