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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 put in place a new election system.
In a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland under the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA), the Baltimore City Circuit Court ruled this week that Calvert County Sheriff Mike Evans acted unlawfully by refusing to release public records about police search practices u
After more than a decade of advocacy by the people of Baltimore City to restore local control of the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD), we were about to clear the last bureaucratic hurdle during the 2023 session of the Maryland General Assembly, which concluded Monday.
We call on the Charles County Commission to immediately halt the eviction of the Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians from their ancestral land. Then, in the long term, they call for the Commission to give back the land.
Exclusionary Rule Would Ban Police from Using Evidence They Obtain Illegally
The decision from the Court in the Bradford case, which spans three decades, leaves another generation of schoolchildren in Baltimore City Public Schools without the equitable funding needed for a quality education