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    Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she sits in the stands at a football game between the University of Maryland and the University of North Carolina, October 19, 1957. In her row, from left to right: University of Maryland President Wilson Elkins, the Queen, Governor Theodore McKeldin, Mrs. Dorothy Elkins, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Courtesy of University of Maryland Archives.
    Queen Elizabeth II’s death reverberates across Baltimore, a city that played a role in her accession to the throne
    Her uncle fell in love with a Baltimore woman and cleared the path for Elizabeth’s reign.
    Julie Scharper
    Sep 9, 2022
    Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waits in the Drawing Room before receiving Liz Truss for an audience at Balmoral, in Scotland, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, where Truss was invited to become Prime Minister and form a new government. Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II is under medical supervision as doctors are “concerned for Her Majesty’s health.” The announcement comes a day after the 96-year-old monarch canceled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest.
    Queen Elizabeth II dead at 96 after 70 years on the throne
    The palace announced the queen died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse.
    Sep 8, 2022
    Author Salman Rushdie at the Blue Sofa at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) on October 12, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
    Longtime Baltimore resident and broadcaster recounts witnessing attack on world-renowned writer Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York
    Rushdie was stabbed in the abdomen and neck Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture.
    Cadence Quaranta
    Aug 12, 2022
    Carleen Goodridge prepped various Liberian dishes such as a salad with tomatos, cucumber, mango, papaya, and onion, palm butter stew, snapper, shrimp and chicken, mashed cassava, and par-boiled rice as a celebration of her culture and Liberia’s Independence Day on July 24, 2022.
    Full circle: Liberians find home in Maryland, the state where their ancestors departed from more than 150 years ago
    Marylanders of Liberian descent will celebrate Liberian Independence Day on Tuesday July 26, 2022, connecting to a history that includes formerly enslaved Blacks departing for the West African country from Maryland in the early 19th century.
    John-John Williams IV
    Jul 26, 2022
    Attendees take a selfie with the banner outside of the Steven Muller Building at the James Webb Space Telescope Science Launch.
    How a team from Baltimore turned data from the James Webb Space Telescope into the images seen around the world
    Release of first full-color images from the telescope marks the culmination of more than three decades of work.
    Cadence Quaranta
    Jul 13, 2022
    Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman virtually meets with Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration staff to thank them for their work assisting refugees and displaced people around the world, at the U.S. Department of State, on March 24, 2022. Photo courtesy of Freddie Everett, U.S. State Department
    How a Baltimore social worker became the tough U.S. arms negotiator with Russia
    Wendy Sherman’s unlikely origin story traces from her youth in Baltimore and work in Maryland state government to leading U.S. arms negotiations with world powers.
    Tim Prudente
    Jun 16, 2022
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