“In 2014, Maryland elected a Republican Governor for the second time in 50 years. In Baltimore, it has been Democrats that pushed forward for Zero-tolerance Policing, who have given tax
Recently I attended the Rumble Young Man Rumble Conference (RYMR), sponsored by the Campaign for Black Male Achievement. The experience was powerful as we spent two days at the Reginald
UPDATE – 8/15/2017 This week, Baltimore faces a choice as to which group will serve as the monitor to its federal policing consent decree. This piece argues that the only
After reading Dan Rodricks’ piece in the Baltimore Sun, “Could Baltimore become ‘best place in the world to change the world?”, about changing Baltimore, I have two core issues that I
The Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL), under the leadership of Pam Block-Brier, is bound up in the non-profit industrial complex. We no longer will support BUDL in any way, shape
Getting Started Tracey Halvorsen’s recent article “Baltimore City You’re Breaking My Heart” has caused quite a bit of controversy. I have been doing a tremendous amount of thinking about her article
EDITORS NOTE: This is an essay published in the 2013 State of Black Baltimore published by the Greater Baltimore National Urban League. It’s published alongside other essays and testimony about the history
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