At a time when the Trump administration tries to repress free speech and limit the mainstream news media’s coverage of the White House, the Enoch Pratt Free Library is in the process of celebrating one of Baltimore’s most accomplished journalists — and it’s not H.L. Mencken this time.

With no disrespect to the Sage of Baltimore, the curmudgeonly columnist and iconoclast who was one of the most famous American journalists of the early 20th Century, the Pratt next month will officially turn the H.L. Mencken Room of the central library into a room named for DeWayne Wickham and devoted to journalism. Carla Hayden, the Pratt’s former director and former Librarian of Congress, encouraged the tribute and new use of the Mencken Room.

DeWayne Wickham is a Baltimore native who has had a long and d

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