Leaders of three different historically black Montgomery County neighborhoods have fought for years to secure funding for repairs at Scotland, Good Hope and Ross Boddy community centers...

The Dream Act didn't come in time to benefit Desiree Venn Frederic, a Sierra Leone immigrant who finished school and started a nonprofit organization six years ago. But supporters of the measure say there are plenty more students like her trying to make higher education a reality.

Just as Candy Binson Smith was telling me about life without indoor plumbing or electricity in the 1960s in Scotland, the tiny black neighborhood tucked away along a dead-end street in affluent Potomac, the lights in the gymnasium next to us flickered and died...

Dec 8, 2005 – Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele (R) was impressed. Sitting in a Bethesda church one evening last month, he watched as Montgomery County Executive ..

The lieutenant governor told the assembled members of Action In Montgomery, a network of congregations that has become perhaps the most powerful grass-roots organization in the county, that he was making progress on an immigration issue they had raised with him.