Maryland

Easter is remembered in an array of colors, from new purple dresses, yellow bonnets and black patent-leather shoes to multicolored eggs hidden in tufts of green grass and fragrant white lilies surrounding the Sunday church altar.

Growing up in Baltimore, Montel Williams didn't think there was anything unusual about his dad's multiple occupations.

When American Profile asked readers to send us photographs of look-alike mothers and daughters, along with a brief description of how these uncanny resemblances influence their lives, we received hundreds of submissions detailing this unique family bond.

Readers explain why their grandparents are great

Best-selling novelist Nora Roberts was only 21 when she fell in love at first sight. Although she became internationally known as a romance writer, this love affair was for a place—not a man.

“We’re so excited in there we can’t stand it,” squeals Carol Dingman as she steps into the bus. Her eyes widen as she tries to see it all—a crammed, top-to-bottom complete fabric store on wheels.

Singer Billy Gilman & poet Mattie Stepanek celebrate a partnership of the heart

Your vision of a barbershop quartet may be four dapper gents wearing striped vests, armbands, and straw hats, but barbershop singers today are just as likely to be female, dressed in tuxedoes, or crooning the hits of the Beatles.

One man's dream becomes the mission of an entire town

Freedom. It started so small. So small, in fact, that we can't be sure where it started at all.

Behind the Faces Another Battle Is Finally Being Won.