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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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Life After a Second Chance Series Premiere (February 8, 2025)

We believe in restorative justice. That’s why our staff and partners have been working diligently to pass the Second Look Act. And we made a short film to explain why.

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Between Two Worlds

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By Lorena Magdalena Diaz

Lorena Diaz and her cousins.
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To the Dance Floor this Latine Heritage Month

Songs pull us through very tough times. The beautiful thing about our community is that even during the painful times, somehow our community can still sing and dance through it.

By Neydin Milián

Latine Heritage Month 2024 Poder de la Cultura Spotify playlist. The Maryland silhouette is surrounded by colorful flowers.
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Dignity for Some or for All

New 2022 data on ICE deportations and detentions

By Neydin Milián

No Racismo. No 287g.
Aug 19, 2024

Children deserve books that reflect their lived experiences

If these books are banned, how will children otherwise identify problems in their own lives, such as sexual abuse, manipulation, bullying and other dangers?

By Carlos Childs

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.
Aug 02, 2024

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.

By Deborah Jeon

Group photo at a press conference in front of a courthouse for the Wicomico voting rights case.
Jul 26, 2024

Waving My Disability Pride Flag All Around

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

By Nicole McCann

Disability Pride Month. Love yourself baby.
Jul 25, 2024

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.
Jun 25, 2024

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.
Jun 14, 2024

A Riot vs. A Rebellion

A Telling of the Emmy Nominated "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.