Social justice

On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland denied the Justice Department’s request to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immigration case due to the government shutdown.

Grassroots organizations gathered in Baltimore for a rally protesting the detainment and deportation of four migrant seaworkers this month.

Assassinations, by their nature, are destabilizing. In the spinning top of American political life at this moment, Charlie Kirk's death may prove to be the thing that irretrievably knocks us over.

Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war.

A Maryland pastor, Daniel Fuentes Espinal, makes a video statement after being released Thursday from a New Orleans detention facility.

Howard County is launching a guaranteed basic income pilot program to study how transformative $1,000 monthly cash payments would be for 20 needy families.

Under the Trump administration, ICE has detained immigrants in Baltimore holding rooms for an average of 51 hours, four times longer than the maximum time limit under its longstanding policy, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of federal data.

The two-year feud between two Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges heads toward a denouement this month, when a disciplinary commission considers complaints against one of them. Unfortunately, they dragged me into this.

The discovery of a body at the end of Pier 4 is not a cause for mirth, despite wry comments about water quality and swimming. It is a reminder that the Chesapeake Bay is a place where life sometimes ends.

Baltimore immigrant families now are coping with the sudden separation from loved ones and navigating both the consequences at home and the uncertainty of what happens next.

Spending cuts may be aimed at adults on paper, but kids could still end up without sufficient food and health care under the One Big Beautiful Bill.

There are no public pools in Baltimore County. Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court's Brown decision overturning the "separate but equal" principle, some attribute this to the legacy of segregation.

In this moment of everyone shouting at once all the time, would we be better off if we all just shut up for a day? Then I remember my right to ignore it all. What if we can’t refuse? That's the risk to free speech today.

This is the second fatal Baltimore Police officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore in a little more than a week.

Dion Banks has written a children's book about a Black superhero who fights slavery titled “Kofi the Wind Whisperer: A Hero’s Fight to Freedom.” The story takes inspiration from the landscape of Dorchester County.

What the hell. It’s a pretty apt summary of this moment. No Kings Day protests planned to counter President Donald Trump's military birthday parade Saturday are growing in response to events in Los Angeles.

FreeState Justice, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, received word at the end of May that $300,000 in funding from the federal government will disappear in July.

Johns Hopkins University is at a complicated crossroads as President Donald Trump’s administration threatens to pull federal funding from institutions with programs that support marginalized groups.

A 43-year-old is fighting deportation to Vietnam, a place she last lived when she was 10.

Federal immigration authorities are meeting behind closed doors with Howard County’s top elected leaders to discuss a dispute over detaining people in the county jail who are suspected of entering the country illegally.