Social justice

Poor conditions at Baltimore City Public Schools reflect a lack of care and concern for the students who attend those schools, students interviewed by Johns Hopkins University researchers say.

A deadline is looming at the end of the year for Maryland to decide whether to keep or replace the troubled, for-profit company that provides medical care in state prisons and the Baltimore City jail complex.

Schools in Howard and Montgomery counties are not doing enough to ensure that Palestinian and Muslim students are not intimidated or silenced as tensions heighten during the Middle East crisis, parents of those students say.

Maybe your family has this tale, too. Somewhere along the way, one of my ancestors whose family came from Europe married a Cherokee woman. Sometimes it’s a princess in the telling, sometimes it’s not. Whatever the details or how it was told, it was just not true.

Volunteer lawyers provide legal protection and justice for many Marylanders, which improves their lives and strengthens their communities, the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service says.

The Baltimore City District Court’s Re-Entry Project gives ex-offenders the opportunity to turn their lives around, Judge Nicole Pastore, the project’s founder, says.

Women’s sports continue to draw bigger audiences and deserve a larger presence in network TV coverage, says Skye Merida, the social media manager for the upcoming women’s basketball docuseries, “Can’t Retire From This.”

After a great college experience at Morgan State, I think about the students we lost to senseless violence.

While Baltimore’s leaders continue to look for ways to lower the city’s murder rate, a flattening of the curve on homicides is evident, Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University, says.

Kionne T. Abdul-Malik has been named chairperson for the Baltimore Commission for Women, whose mission she sees as more vital than ever in today’s current political climate.

Offering support to the former Baltimore state's attorney as she faces criminal prosecution would be following a legacy established by civil rights giants of the past, Haki S. Ammi, a community activist and author, says.

A new exhibition at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum shows how Black artists of the 19th and 20th centuries interpreted the Black experience in America, Janet Currie, Greater Maryland president of Bank of America, says.

One of Baltimore’s greatest statemen lived at the corner of Carrollton and Lafayette in West Baltimore across the street from Lafayette Square, long ago nicknamed the square of the churches for all the splendid churches built around it.

Reparations — and who ultimately will receive them — remains a contentious debate in this country and in Maryland.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

Maryland must uphold recently enacted legal protections for children who are subject to interrogation by police, say Jessica Feierman, an attorney and senior managing director at the Juvenile Law Center, and Emily Virgin, an attorney and director of advocacy and government affairs at Human Rights for Kids.

Richard Roundtree's portrayal of the title character in the 1971 film "Shaft" earned him icon status, Wayne E. Williams says.

With the death of his brother during Israel’s bombing of Gaza, a Palestinian American says he fears for the lives of other family members there.

Actor Richard Roundtree, who died Tuesday at age 81, created the iconic film character John Shaft, who redefined Black male characterization in movies and across popular culture.

It’s not clear how a gunman found Judge Andrew Wilkinson's Hagerstown home Friday night and shot him to death in his driveway. Maybe he followed him home, or maybe he stalked him on the Internet. But Maryland lawmakers knew this kind of violence was a threat.