Rising up to challenge their government’s 200-year history of racial oppression and all-white rule, Black voters of the Town of Federalsburg are asking a federal court to grant a preliminary injunction ordering the Town’s all-white government to create new election system.
May 9, 2023
In its 200-year history, the town of Federalsburg, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, has never elected a Black official.
March 14, 2023
The Maryland Coalition for Justice & Police Accountability gathered before a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on HB 1071/SB 51, to end police stops and searches based on the alleged smell of marijuana.
March 9, 2023
Josette Blocker tells the story of her nephew Demonte Ward-Blake's experience of the police stopping and searching him based on the smell of marijuana.
March 3, 2023
On February 20, 2023, activists from across the state joined ACLU of Maryland staff in Annapolis to lobby at the state House and Senate.
March 3, 2023
A hearing in the case was held on December 14, 2022, and students from the No Boundaries Youth Coalition who lead our local town hall a few days before, attended the hearing and joined us at the courthouse.
March 1, 2023