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ANNAPOLIS, MD – Today is a great, long-awaited day for fairness and racial justice, as the Maryland General Assembly voted to override a veto of SB 202, a bill to fix the state’s broken parole system so that Marylanders serving life sentences finally have a chance to earn release.
STATEWIDE, MD – Maryland communities have demanded real change to realize police accountability for many years, and with continued community pressure and the National uprising after the murder of George Floyd, the General Assembly finally achieved a good start through victories this past session,
PRINCE FREDERICK, MD – As the open comment period opens about a draft proposal from the Calvert County commissioners that would appoint several former police officers and pro-police representatives to the County’s new police accountability board (PAB), the Calvert County NAACP, League of Women Vo
BALTIMORE, MD – In materials submitted yesterday to the Baltimore County Redistricting Commission, the Baltimore County NAACP and the ACLU of Maryland are expressing concerns that the redistricting plan the Commission is on the brink of recommending would unlawfully dilute Black people’s votes, i
ANNAPOLIS, MD – After the Accountability and Implementation Board (AIB) Nominating Committee announced nine nominees for the AIB, in accordance with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, the Maryland Alliance for Racial Equity in Education (MAREE) issued the following statement.
Our hearts are heavy at the harrowing scenes of Afghan allies and refugees seeking to flee their homeland as the Taliban tightens its grip on the country. Leaving everything they have behind, some 400,000 Afghans have been forced from their homes since the beginning of the year.