Social justice

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not the only Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador last month, according to court records.

Former Prince George’s County Police Cpl. Ivan Mendez, who interviewed Kilmar Abrego Garcia and helped label him as a gang member, later pleaded guilty to misconduct.

There’s a simple but powerful idea that often gets lost in our polarized conversations: two things can be true at the same time.

Sen. Van Hollen is the first person Kilmar Abrego Garcia has spoken to see being unlawfully deported and imprisoned in El Salvador. He told the senator he wants to talk to his wife.

Freddie Gray’s death in police custody sparked unrest in Baltimore and nationwide. But who was the man beyond the headlines?

A New York City congressman announced he will introduce legislation inspired by a Maryland father Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott recalls the tragic, police-involved death of Freddie Gray nearly 10 years ago.

We owe Freddie Gray more than memorials. We owe him progress, Kwame Rose writes.

The senior center at Pastor Donté Hickman's church was set ablaze after Freddie Gray’s death, but he says the young man's lost life became a seed that started to germinate into a harvest.

Maryland’s U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks decried the “appalling situation” unfolding in the holding rooms at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore Field Office in the city’s downtown.

Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

A Cityscape paper found the Baltimore area is bucking a national trend.

A community foundation raised money for the Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong fund under the explicit premise that Key Bridge victims’ families would see some of it.

Immigrant families — regardless of status — are increasingly planning for the possibility of a family member being detained and eventually deported.

Advocates say Howard County's police accountability board has not pushed hard enough to address apparent racial disparities in policing and failed to fulfill some of their basic duties in 2024.

Despite a planned protest and counterprotesters, attendees of the Trans Pride Party carried on unfazed.

The Maryland General Assembly is on track for the first time in years to not pass a single bill focused on trans Marylanders.

The arts have become the latest battleground over efforts to address gender, racial discrimination and inequity.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar who was detained by the Trump Administration and accused of spreading Hamas propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses.

Like many other colleges last spring, Hopkins grappled with balancing free speech and campus safety after students organized a pro-Palestinian demonstration.