BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity. Banneker was born on a farm in 1731 in Oella, Maryland. Near ...
When poet and creative writer Rachel Jamison Webster attended a cousin's wedding, she was surprised to discover that her family is related to famed mathematician and naturalist Benjamin Banneker. This ...
Annapolis’ Banneker-Douglass Museum will likely be sporting a new name soon honoring another key Maryland civil rights trailblazer — Harriet Tubman. The name change for the city’s premiere Black ...