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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
Seven Black voters joined today with the Caroline County Branch of the NAACP and the Caucus of African American Leaders to file suit in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Annapolis, MD – Last week, the Maryland Voting Rights Act (MDVRA) was publicly filed in the Maryland legislature and a hearing has now been set for