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A recent cycle of internet outrage over a runner’s husband reveals that sometimes we don’t know what we’re talking about.
The dizzying highs and embarrassing lows of being wrong on the internet
A recent cycle of internet outrage over a runner’s husband reveals that sometimes we don’t know what we’re talking about.
There is nothing wrong with being a homemaker. There is also nothing wrong with not being one.
Using religion to sell homemaking as the only career for women is the real sin
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told a class of college graduates that the women among them were sold “diabolical lies” about their careers. He is the liar.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) speaks during a press conference in December.
Black women are told to ‘go high.’ Jasmine Crockett went low, and I’m proud.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s clapback to a personal insult from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a refreshing reminder that Black women no longer feel compelled to cater to respectability politics.
Scott Zervitz, with hair, circa the late 1990s, and in 2012 with wife Leslie Gray Streeter at a wedding in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The ‘Black wife effect’ trend is cute, but we’re not miracle workers
A recent TikTok trend provides real-life evidence of the glow-up that comes with the “Black wife effect.” But I have questions.
Joan Vassos, right, goes on a date with Gerry Turner in last year’s “The Golden Bachelor.”
The new ‘Golden Bachelorette’ is a Maryland native and our personal favorite
The first-ever “Golden Bachelorette” is a 61-year-old Montgomery County woman who left last season’s “The Golden Bachelor” of her own volition.
Former President Donald Trump leaves his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court on May 14.
If a Trump trial isn’t televised, does it make a sound?
Would public opinion be swayed if we were witnessing, say, Stormy Daniels and Hope Hicks’ testimonies and facial expressions in real time? According to two media experts: Not really.
Would you rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear? (karpenko_ilia/Getty Images; Emma Patti Harris/The Baltimore Banner)
Man or bear? A viral meme about who women feel safer with requires expert answers
A TikTok video asked women whether they would rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear. Even the experts seemed firmly in one camp.
A reboot of “The Office,” NBC’s beloved comedy series, will take place in a Midwestern newsroom.
‘The Office’ reboot is about a dying newspaper. I’m not laughing.
“The Office” reboot will focus on volunteer reporters, but there’s nothing funny about the sad decline of news.
One day, if you're lucky, this adorable person will grow up to buy you a Diet Coke without being asked.
Mother’s Day is one day. Here are the gifts we want all year.
For Mother's Day, give the gift of kindness, clean rooms and not tripping over shoes for eternity.
The Baltimore skyline.
What do Baltimore and a Shakespeare story have in common? Quite a lot.
“The Deceived Ones,” a new novel from Judith Krummeck, a longtime DJ on Baltimore classical radio station WBJC, turns Shakespeare’s “The Twelfth Night” into a very modern and very personal story.
Andre Braugher, left, and Kyle Secor played Detectives Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss in “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ is a classic. This podcast will remind you why.
The new podcast “Homicide: Life On The Set” explores Baltimore’s classic cop show with the people who helped create it.
Author Emily Barth Isler is the daughter of WMAR newscaster Andy Barth. At left, she supports him on the picket line in 1982. At right, he supports her at the 2023 Books in Bloom festival.
Her dad is a Baltimore TV legend. She’s returning to Maryland on her own merits.
Author Emily Barth Isler, daughter of former local broadcasting legend Andy Barth, comes home with a new book and life-saving message about kids and guns.
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.
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