Social justice

Communities must stand against the language that criminalizes and dehumanizes immigrants, says the managing attorney of an organization supporting immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.

Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Preparing to speak at the funeral of Roger Fortson, who was shot and killed by police at his Florida home, the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, a former Baltimore pastor, revisits his Freddie Gray eulogy and his outrage fueled by the deaths of young Black men during interactions with police.

A measure to change the selection process for Baltimore County's Planning Board might have less to do with concerns about planning generally and more to do with opposition to mixed-use development that would include affordable housing, says a county resident who writes about law and local government issues.

As the Project Play Summit convenes in Baltimore, participants will be exploring how communities can provide needed resources to expand youth sports participation, says the community impact director of the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program and its Project Play initiative.

The rally came out of Prince George’s County just after midnight when police were alerted it was on the move. Anne Arundel County Police say the drivers were headed for the Giant Food parking lot in Gambrills, where they planned to set up an exhibition of wildness behind the wheel.

Despite polarization and unrest on college and university campuses, the institutions can find ways to make constructive use of that conflict, say the University of Baltimore's president and a professor of public and international affairs.

Duke Ellington added to his legacy as an artist and a cultural figure when he appeared in Baltimore.

The 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth presents an opportunity for the Peabody Conservatory to ensure that another generation of musicians appreciates the meaning and significance of his work, says trumpeter and composer Sean Jones, who chairs Peabody’s jazz program.

With scant police resources to locate missing people, the Missing in Baltimore City Facebook group has increasingly become a resource for families to crowdsource and find support as they search for their loved ones.

A plan discussed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to prosecute parents whose children are arrested would only make matters worse for marginalized families in the city, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health says.

I listened with interest last week to a panel discussion of the University of Maryland’s groundbreaking study on the state of journalism in Maryland. No surprise, what it found ain’t great. But there is reason to hope.

A new Anne Arundel County law will expand the Human Relations Commission’s powers from addressing discrimination complaints in housing to include noncounty employment and public accommodations.

For the last decade, children have been traveling to the U.S. southwest border in record numbers, with more than 33,000 unaccompanied children arriving in Maryland since October 2014.

Having unionized workers rebuild the Key Bridge would ensure that workplace standards are upheld, livable wages are paid, and the workforce reflects the makeup of the Baltimore region, William R. Davis, a council representative for the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters, says.

St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.

An idea floated by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to bring criminal charges against parents whose children have been arrested is cruel and misguided, say the faculty director and the executive director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Youth development programs are among the resources needed to address the social and economic causes of juvenile crime, says Lillian Bocquin, a fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Annapolis is a city with a racist past. There’s just no nice way to say that. The arts, well, they are no different. The question is, what has changed?

The Caucus of African American Leaders unanimously voted to ask that two bridges in the state, including the Francis Scott Key Bridge, be renamed.