Research & Publications

For over 90 years, we've been showing up for Marylanders. As 2023 comes to a close, we wish you and those you cherish renewed hope, health, and determination in 2024.

Wicomico County has a long and disgraceful history of discrimination against Black residents, evident in pervasive segregation, overt racial polarization throughout the community, and unequal access to education, employment, housing, and government services based on race.

For 200 years, the town of Federalsburg on Maryland's Eastern Shore has never had a Black elected official. However, all of that changed on a rainy Tuesday evening on September 26, 2023.

ACLU of Maryland's Executive Director Dana Vickers Shelley was invited for a second year to speak with the Crofton Middle School Changemakers.

The Child Interrogation Protection Act is extremely important in the lives of Black and Brown children throughout Maryland who deserve access to justice too.

Yanet Amanuel, Public Policy Director at the ACLU of Maryland, discusses top-lines regarding the Child Interrogation Protection Act in Maryland.

This toolkit is a conceptual resource for community advocates in Maryland who are working to ensure that racial justice is centered as cannabis (marijuana) is legalized and tax dollars are distributed from the newly legal cannabis market.