The Road to Marijuana Legalization: Timeline So Far

What do you need to know now that it seems clear legal recreational marijuana is coming to Maryland?

By Yanet Amanuel, Neydin Milián

Yellow background with a Black or Brown person's hand holding a green marijuana leaf.

A War on Marijuana, or a War on Black Communities?

How Maryland’s legal issue with marijuana enabled white supremacy and what we must do about it.

By Nehemiah Bester, Neydin Milián

Marijuana leaf with a dark and light green photoshop treatment on it to look like there are lines through it.

Spooky! What Civil Rights Violations Scare Us Most This Halloween Season

Together, we can prevent a scary future and build a better community.

By Neydin Milián

Image says "Spooky!" Background is balck with white specks. Dark yellow triangles are on the right and left sides.

“I want to see what real freedom looks like.”

Women’s History Month

Women's History Month image has a collage of photos of Tawanda Jones and Ashley Overbey Wood.

Celebrating Civil Liberties Moments During These Happy Holidays!

The holiday season is in full swing! But as you know, advocating for civil rights is a year-long job. Not only do we want to celebrate the many cultural and religious holidays that occur worldwide during these winter months, but we also want to celebrate some civil liberties moments that occurred during past holiday seasons. We like to think of these civil liberties victories as gifts and these civil rights fights as moments in time that inspire celebration and reflection.

Image shows a snow gloge with ACLU of Maryland staff shown in a grid in a Zoom meeting. The bottom says Happy Holidays on a navy blue background slightly angled. The background of the image is a dark fuschia with sparkles.

“Free the Vote” Documentary Blog Series Part 5: The Voices Leading the Fight

People Who Were Imprisoned Are Leading the Fight to Free the Vote

Free the Vote. Nicole Hanson Mundell, Monica Cooper, Earl Young, and Qiana Johnson are standing together behind posters from the Civil Rights Movement calling for voting rights now. The poster has a pink and brown theme.

“Free the Vote” Documentary Blog Series Part 4: Voting is a Human Right

The Vote Cannot Be Chained Down

Protest with a Black person in the center with their fist raised. The signs say "no more drug war" and "Black Lives Matter" and "resist".

“Free the Vote” Documentary Blog Series Part 3: Voting and Incarceration

Connecting Voting to Incarceration is Dangerous and Racist

Parchman Prison labor done by people who are incarcerated in 1911.

“Free the Vote” Documentary Blog Series Part 2: The Present

The Fight to Free the Vote is Still Not Over

Black marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge holding a banner that says "From the back of the bus ot the front of the prison, the struggle continues."