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Under Armour Inc. has joined a growing list of retailers halting sales in Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The Baltimore-based sportswear maker released a statement Thursday in which the company said it found itself “shocked and saddened by Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine.” The company said it is partnering with humanitarian groups to provide “what is needed” for people who have been displaced by the Russian invasion and has stopped all shipments to its sales channels in Russia.

Across the country, stories of missing Black and brown people have largely remained unheard and their cases unsolved. One organization hopes to bring light to this national problem. “We didn’t see many or any missing Black and brown people covered in the news,” said Natalie Wilson, the co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation. Wilson and her sister-in-law Derrica started the organization in 2008. “Doing our research, we found that 30% of all persons missing at that time were of color,” Wilson added.

Growing up in Baltimore, Ahmad Onyango, then 12, remembered there were several theaters in the city, but none of them were as large and popular as the Royal Theater. It was thrilling, he said, because it was the only place to see legendary Black performers like James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Redd Foxx and Billie Holiday. February marked the 100th anniversary of the Royal Theater, a star of a bygone era of Black entertainment in Baltimore.

The complimentary waffle station opened early on Tuesday at the Bozzuto Group’s headquarters in Greenbelt. It was the first day back at the office for the nearly 350 workers after the pandemic sent many to home-based workstations in March 2020. A treat was in order, said Toby Bozzuto, CEO. “It’s going to take some getting used to,” Bozzuto said, of the 34-year-old company’s new flexible work plan.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County announced Thursday it received the largest gift in university history, a $21 million donation from the Sherman Family Foundation to expand the reach of UMBC’s K-12 and early childhood education work. The gift will provide funding to launch the Betsy & George Sherman Center as a national model to advance excellence in urban schools. This new center will expand and integrate UMBC’s work in teacher preparation, school partnerships and applied research focused on early childhood education and improving learning outcomes for Baltimore’s students.

Blockbusters will return to the Rotunda this fall. Warehouse Cinemas plans to move into the Hampden development’s vacant CineBistro space, president and CEO Rich Daughtridge said this week. The local movie theater chain already operates cinemas in Frederick and Hagerstown. In Hampden, it will take over the 33,000-square-foot CineBistro building, as well as 2,500 square feet of neighboring space that once housed craft beer bar Growler USA.

Who wants to drink the bay? No, not that one. Baltimore’s signature Old Bay flavor is now bottled in a vodka made from corn and distilled in Frederick through a partnership between the spice giant McCormick & Co. and George’s Beverage Company, a purveyor of cocktail mixes based in Hanover.