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Everything About My Black and Latina Identity is Beautiful

Often for Cultural Heritage Months, we try to highlight people whose experiences and identities shaped them into the activists they are today.

February 21, 2021

Opinion: Maryland police must stop playing ICE

Sara Medrano, a Latina grandmother and Frederick County resident, was driving her daughter and two grandchildren to pick up laundry detergent on her way to work when a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy pulled her over, purportedly for a “broken” taillight — that was working just fine — and detain

February 5, 2021