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Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter, left, in 2023, and right, in 2024, has lost 20 pounds on her health journey.
Getting healthy takes a different priority when your goal is not to die
Us Generation Xers can no longer ignore the health challenges that come with aging. It took a scare to wake me up.
A woman looks off into the distance.
After witnessing a courthouse shooting, one attorney is using poetry to heal
Baltimore County poet Jennifer Sutherland's “Bullet Points” lyrically recounts a tragic fatal shooting and its aftermath.
Two people share an umbrella as they walk in the rain.
How do you dress for Maryland’s ‘Spring of Deception’? Two stylists have some ideas.
It can be hot, cold, snowy, sunny and rainy all in one week. Here’s how to dress for Maryland’s crazy weather.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Angel Reese arrives prior to the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort present full-court fashion
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort shone sartorially at the draft.
O.J. Simpson stands as he listens to Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell as she reads her decision to hold him over for trial on July 8, 1994, in connection with the June 12 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
O.J. Simpson: Parsing the late athlete and former murder suspect’s legacy
The legacy of the late OJ Simpson remains complicated, even 30 years after the murders that cast him into suspicion.
Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
How the total eclipse of the sun became a ‘total eclipse of the heart’ for my family
This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.
Angel Reese is expected to be a first-round pick in the WNBA draft.
Angel Reese and the perils of being a Black female athlete
Randallstown native Angel Reese is headed for the WNBA. Can she get ahead of the double standards for Black women in sports?
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2024.
He’s a country music fan. She loves Beyoncé. Could they agree on ‘Cowboy Carter’?
To get a sense of the impact of “Cowboy Carter,” we asked two locals — one country music fan and one Beyoncé stan — what they thought of the album.
Construction workers honored the Key Bridge victims during a press conference on March 28, 2024 at CASA's Baltimore worker center. They held white flowers and raised their hands in solidarity.
Baltimore is grieving the loss of the Key Bridge. We’re at the anger stage now.
Baltimore’s anger is not just out of the helplessness we feel over what happened to the Key Bridge, but at the absolute asinine response across the media — social, televised and otherwise.
Joyce J. Scott exhibit
The joy of celebrating an artist who is still alive — and thriving
Local artist Joyce J. Scott encourages viewers to “walk a mile in my dreams” in an expansive retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
A selection of front pages from U.K. daily national newspaper coverage on the health news about King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
How not to handle the case of a missing princess
I don’t know where Princess Catherine is. But as a reporter, I know the royals are handling the PR around this hot mess express all wrong. Just ask Jack Ryan.
Rhaina Cohen is the author of "The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center."
Why friendships can — and should — be as important as romantic relationships
Rhaina Cohen's “The Other Significant Others” explores the power of nonsexual friendships in a society that prioritizes romantic partners.
More than 100,000 people attended the dedication of Harborplace on July 3, 1980.
Reader memories: In its heyday, Harborplace was ‘the hub of the universe’
Former employees, buskers and regular visitors to Harborplace tell The Banner why it was such a pivotal place to be in Baltimore.
Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, attends the Academy′s Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony Feb. 23 in Los Angeles.
The head of the Oscars shaped his love of movies in Baltimore County
Bill Kramer, the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a Timonium native, talks about his passion for films and the cinematic beauty of Baltimore.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: In this handout photo provided by A.M.P.A.S., Oscar statuettes are seen backstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Al Seib/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)
You can find a little Baltimore in all the Oscar nominees for best picture
Thematic threads in all the Oscar nominees for best picture reflect the difficult but still strangely hopeful space we find ourselves in right now, around the world and here in Baltimore.
Harold Tremain visited Harborplace in the 1980s. His granddaughter, Alexandra Smith, now works for the mayor's office.
Did you hang out at Harborplace in its heyday? Tell us your stories.
Did you fold jeans at the Harborplace Gap? Did you hang out on the paddleboats?
Phaedra Parks is a force to be reckoned with on Peacock's "The Traitors."
Opinion: ‘The Traitors’ underestimates female players — just like the real world
Men downplay the skills of women on reality shows because they do so in real life, too. Sometimes to their peril.
Children at day care.
Opinion: When it comes to day care, even 24-hour options don’t feel like enough
Judgment over the use of 24-hour day care ignores the realities of parenthood — and personhood.
Beyoncé performs in Los Angeles in 2009.
Opinion: ‘Cancel culture’ isn’t about outrage. It’s about money.
To better understand the perseverance of so-called “cancel culture” when it comes to people like Kid Rock and Beyoncé, I talked to those on the frontlines of cancellation controversies: radio personalities.
Former president and current candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in South Carolina on Feb. 14.
Opinion: Presidents are flawed. How we teach students about them matters.
We can celebrate the triumphs of the men who built this country while never forgetting the evils they excused.
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