Gov.-elect Wes Moore embraces Maryland’s Black history as he readies for historic oath of office

The inauguration day of Westley Watende Omari Moore as Maryland’s first Black governor is shaping up to look like a walk through history. An early morning visit to the Annapolis docks where enslaved Africans once arrived on Maryland’s shores. An oath of office using a Bible owned by Frederick Douglass. An inaugural speech just steps from a statue of Thurgood Marshall that marks the spot where he argued as a young lawyer before becoming the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After a campaign in which Moore sometimes...