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12 Latinx/e Changemakers from Maryland

This Latinx/e Heritage Month Hear About these Past and Present Changemakers

By Neydin Milián

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Carlos Childs is looping to the side and up and is smiling. He is a Black man and is earing dark0framed glasses. He is outside in front of trees, is wearing a black suit jacket over a blue button-up and collared shirt.

Racial reckoning comes to Maryland’s Eastern Shore

More than three decades after those historic advances, the struggle to overcome racial oppression continues anew amid the Shore’s increasing racial diversification.

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Group photo at a press conference in front of a courthouse for the Wicomico voting rights case.

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We must center disability accessibility and inclusion in everything we do.

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Disability Pride Month. Love yourself baby.

Let’s Reflect on LGBTQ+ Pride

Every month, not just in June.

By Neydin Milián

Lorena Diaz with her sister Sarah at the ACLU of Maryland table at Baltimore Trans Pride event in Baltimore City.

Welcome our new Board President, Corey Stottlemyer

"I always thought of the ACLU as being focused on the courtroom. And here, they were in working communities and also working to advocate on behalf of communities."

By Neydin Milián

Corey Stottlemyer is standing in front of a brick wall. He is a white man with short brown and gray hair, wearing glasses and a suite.

A Riot vs. A Rebellion

A Telling of “The Riot Report” Documentary

By Nehemiah Bester

Juneteenth collage image with protest photos and a poster for the PBS documentary, "The Riot Report." Nehemiah Bester is in the photos and took the others.

In Harmony: Our Soundtrack of Queer Resistance

This Pride Month, ACLU-MD staff members put together an eclectic list of songs by LGBTQ+ artists, reaching across various genres and cultures.

By Alicia Smith

Pride is community.

Commentary: Baltimore County’s Black residents want council that represents them

Effort to expand County Council aims for more equitable representation.

By Veronica Dunlap

Veronica Dunlap testifies at a Baltimore County hearing on Council expansion.

The Land of Smiles, the Land of the Free

Owning Your Own Destiny: A Lesson from Thailand's Effort to Resist Colonization

By Frank Patinella

Frank Patinella's family in a group photo in Thailand.