Karen DeWitt Archives - Baltimore Post-Examiner

Why I moved to Baltimore….and loving it

“Why Baltimore?”, friends asked. The simple answer was: “necessity”. Several years of under-and unemployment meant I could no longer afford

One of my acquaintances is a 55-year-old black man whose interactions with the justice system have been confined to a

Whether a gun killing is a hate crime or not– whether it is perpetrated by a disturbed young man at

A long list of the famous—Chief Justice John Roberts, Vice President Joe Biden, friends, family and a hosts of journalists

A journalist friend complained that she couldn’t get any writing done because her two-year old son was distracting. She has

I was working for USA Today when I saw Nelson Mandela for the first time in 1986, through a glass

Whenever people talk about terrorists, they call them crazy– crazy for believing that they’ll end up in paradise after blowing

When I told my 91-year old mother about the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the killing of 17-year

Riveted by news reports about the two explosions that rocked the finish line of Monday’s Boston Marathon and left at

I support marriage equality. What’s not to support. Two people fall in love and they want to get married, so