Announcing the winners of WJZ’s 2026 Black History Oratory Competition
Twenty Maryland high school students performed original speeches in WJZ’s 2026 Black History Oratory Competition. Three winners were chosen.
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Twenty Maryland high school students performed original speeches in WJZ’s 2026 Black History Oratory Competition. Three winners were chosen.
Long before hospitals were accessible to many Black families in Maryland, grand midwives were delivering babies, supporting mothers and sustaining entire communities.
Western High School in Baltimore, one of the only all-girls public schools in the United States, will undergo a renovation project.
At one point, Baltimore was home to multiple Negro League baseball teams. Arguably, the Baltimore Black Sox are among the most well-known.
Nearly 70 years before the Civil War, Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker helped Andrew Ellicott survey the boundaries of what would become Washington, D.C.
Arena Players in Baltimore, the nation's oldest continuously operating African American community theatre, is preparing for a $7.5 million renovation.
WJZ visits the Henry G. Parks Exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Baltimore celebrates Black History Month with a parade on Presidents' Day.
A Maryland restaurant is introducing West African flavors to its customers.
Walter’s Art Museum in Baltimore talks Black History Month.
Turner Station is one of Maryland's few historically African American neighborhoods that is still standing.
America’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, got his start at a segregated public school in Baltimore. His father introduced him to the courtroom at an early age.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is celebrating the centennial of what began in 1926 as Negro History Week.
The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Maryland talks Black History Month.
The Gordon Center in Owings Mills is hosting all different types of performances to celebrate Black History Month.
Preserving history through art is the theme of "Sacred Spaces," a new exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Annapolis.
Baltimore County swore in their first Black fire chief this past year, equipping diversity as a tool for leadership.
WJZ celebrated Black History Month 2025 with a lineup of inspirational stories on legends and leaders in Maryland.
The Black-owned business is a coffee shop by day and cocktail lounge by night.
In Blandair Regional Park, there's a building that used to be the home of enslaved African Americans that was first built in the 1800s. The county wants to fix it up and learn more about it.
For over 30 Years, WJZ has asked Maryland High School Students to speak up and speak out in WJZ's Black History Oratory Competition.
Tyler Perry's most-watched Netflix film has revealed the hidden history of WWII's only all-black, all-woman battalion with Maryland ties.
The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.
The desegregation of schools was especially challenging in Harford County.
Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: George Armwood.
