My white friends used to say, “you’re not really black, you’re like Oprah,” i.e. someone they could relate to. I know they meant it as a compliment, but it was unwanted.

A new bridge that opened in Montgomery County, Maryland, Friday unites two neighborhoods that were once divided into Black and white. Patricia Tyson, a lifelong resident of the historically Black ...

Tension had been building between Black and white U.S. soldiers in Bamber Bridge Days before violence broke out in Bamber Bridge, the U.S. experienced some of its worst race riots to date, in ...

It became largely self-sufficient in its heyday, an enclave of Black entrepreneurship and achievement in majority-white Baltimore County. The population peaked at nearly 9,000 in the 1950s, but ...