By AIESHA SOLOMON Laurel resident Rishawna Gould’s life took an unexpected new path after the death of her mother 10 years ago followed a few years later by the death of her aunt. She penned a children’s...

By ALAYSIA EZZARD In January 2017, Marcus Colbert died in a tragic accident while serving as a sanitation worker with the Laurel Department of Public Works. Colbert, who was loading trash into the back...

BY TORRENCE BANKS  Yaba Baker’s neighborhood, Edgewood Terrace in Washington, D.C., was forever changed by the crack epidemic of the 1980s. Baker, president and CEO of Just Like Me Inc., said he watched...