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Jeanette J. Epps has been a trailblazer for NASA, setting an agency record with her crew in October for the most time in space — 235 days in low-Earth orbit — on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Epps was a mission specialist on SpaceX Crew-8, which launched to the International Space Station on March 4. The spacecraft returned to Pensacola, Florida, in October, concluding a nearly … [Read more...] about Black Marylanders to Watch 2025: Jeanette J. Epps, NASA astronaut

As athletic director at Morgan State University since June 2022, Dena Freeman-Patton continues to receive well wishes from others. “People are still congratulating me for getting the job,” she said. Freeman-Patton has been busy. She shepherded the additions of wrestling as well as acrobatics and tumbling, raising the number of sports programs to 16 and student-athletes to 400, … [Read more...] about Black Marylanders to Watch 2025: Dena Freeman-Patton, Morgan State athletic director

Billy Lyve is a force to be reckoned with. He is well known in Carroll County for his Westminster-based nonprofit Find Your Purpose. Movers and Shakers Enterprises, a nonprofit connected to Find Your Purpose, won the $2,000 United Way of Central Maryland Changemaker Challenge Award in the 2024 Carroll Biz Challenge for addressing a pressing issue in his community. Lyve said … [Read more...] about Black Marylanders to Watch 2025: Billy Lyve, Find Your Purpose founder

When Sister Rita Michelle Proctor joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence more than 50 years ago, her idea was to follow in the footsteps of the order’s founder, Mother Mary Lange, the Black woman who founded a school for girls in the slave state of Maryland in 1828. Proctor admired Lange’s courage, vision and faith that God will find a way to educate and bless all his … [Read more...] about Black Marylanders to Watch 2025: Sister Rita Michelle Proctor, Oblate Sisters of Providence leader