Social justice

When Anne Arundel County voters rejected Circuit Court Judge Ginina Jackson-Stevenson for lawyer Tom Casey, they reduced the number of Black judges on the bench by one-third.

“It was kind of a gift that David Smith and the proponents of the bill gave this city,” said Zac Blanchard, who unseated a Smith-backed candidate in May.

The settlement agreement requires DHS to take steps to ensure people in Maryland with disabilities receive fair access to public benefits, including the state’s temporary cash assistance program.

A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.

The funds will be used to preserve records and artifacts and collect oral histories from the old Crownsville Hospital. It will also help demolish dilapidated buildings to prepare for a public park.

The Coalition for Atonement and Repair seek restorative justice from the city of Annapolis after urban renewal displaced the Old 4th Ward in Annapolis.

Rev. Kobi Little, head of the NAACP Maryland State Conference, and Joshua Harris, treasurer for the state conference, were suspended by the national NAACP last week.

Rev. Kobi Little, the president of the Baltimore NAACP, and Joshua Harris, vice president of the Baltimore NAACP, were both suspended this week by the national organization.

Whether the Democrats’ new fervor will translate into policy changes and more housing is less certain, as Gov. Wes Moore and others who have tried already know.

Anne Arundel County has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to reduce hate bias incidents in Anne Arundel.

Launched by two Baltimore-natives in 2022, Our Parks Too! is a campaign that encourages Black people to visit and enjoy the country’s national parks system.

Food insecurity in rural Maryland has been especially pronounced this summer, local advocates say. Low-income families are grappling with soaring grocery prices and unusually high temperatures that hit at the same time as federal reductions in food assistance programs.

More than 100 members of the predominantly Black Push’N Pedals Cycling Club and other cyclists kicked off a Ride Against Hate Friday night in response to an ugly episode of racism in Annapolis earlier this summer.

“iWitness: Media & the Movement” is a new exhibit that launches Thursday at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture. The yearlong exhibit coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Two Annapolis police officers who are union representatives used department tech to track a police major's vehicle as he worked from home, prompting police Chief Ed Jackson to suspend them. The officers have returned to work, but the incident lies at the heart of a planned no-confidence vote.

An estimated 2,500 people turned out for the third annual event to celebrate Baltimore's trans community. The event included a parade, a block party and a street renaming.

Lines carved by the wind on the sand are no different than what followed the violence that ended five lives on June 28, 2018 — energy moving from one form to another.

President Joe Biden pardoned former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, which will clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. The pardon goes even further to protect LGBTQIA+ service members than the controversial policy “don’t ask, don’t tell” that was repealed in 2010.

The longtime head of the state office responsible for nursing home inspections will retire, officials announced about a month after a major lawsuit against the agency.

A Baltimore spokesperson said that Mace was released after two groups of people got into an altercation, but people who attended think something else happened.