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Collage image with poictures of women highlighted in the blog: Pauline Tsui, Elisabeth Gilman, Gloria Richardson Dandridge, Fannie Birckhead, Harriet Tubman, Sharon Brackett, Rachel Carson, and Carmen Delgado Votaw.

41 Inspiring Women from Maryland History You Need to Know

More important and fascinating women are newly added to the latest edition of our Women’s History heroes celebration this year!

By Nehemiah Bester

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Mar 27, 2026

Community Leaders, Elected Officials, and Civil Rights Organizations Challenge DHS’s Secret, Rushed Plan to Convert Hagerstown Warehouse into Mass Immigration Detention Center

Amicus brief warns of serious risks to water supply, public health, emergency services, and the fundamental dignity of those detained, with no meaningful notice or input from local residents

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Sep 20, 2024

Dignity for Some or for All

New 2022 data on ICE deportations and detentions

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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.

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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."