“We now have three Black mayors on the Eastern Shore; two years ago we didn’t have any,” said Nock, whose rapid rise from activist to mayor was the subject of the documentary “The ...

Federalsburg, a small town on the Eastern Shore, elected its first Black government officials for the first time in its 200-year history on Tuesday.

Challenges to all-White political rule on the Eastern Shore began in the 1980s, when ACLU lawyer Chris Brown and civil rights leader Carl Snowden first engaged with Black voters to pursue a series ...

Saving 'significant Black history' on Maryland's Eastern Shore Melissa Reid shows the location of Briddletown on Monday, May 16, 2022, in an exhibit at the Calvin B. Taylor House in Berlin, Maryland.

While there are vulnerable farms throughout the entire shore, Tully said Black communities in the lower Eastern Shore are being disproportionately impacted by saltwater intrusion. “We've already ...

Here are several historic spots to visit on the Lower Shore: San Domingo, a community of a few hundred people in northwestern Wicomico County, may be one of the oldest surviving black communities ...