Black People can win in Baltimore
September 15, 2023
We need messages in Baltimore that show that Black people are doing meaningful work in the community so that we can build the momentum we need to improve the conditions in our community.
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OP-ED: Who are the real criminals?
April 6, 2023
Blaming Black drug dealers for society’s problems makes it easy for white society to ignore their role in the conditions that produce violence in places like Baltimore and across the country.
Perspective: Long live Eddie Conway, through his example of commitment
February 23, 2023
Black Panther leader’s tireless activism endured despite decades of incarceration
Paint Us As We Are
January 27, 2023
Black people are not going to be free by finessing white people into including us, as a people, as beneficiaries of their societal power.
Let’s kill the woke straw man argument
January 16, 2023
As social justice issues have become more mainstream, the worst and least substantive versions of it have become most visible.
Opinion: Time to reconsider public health approaches to curbing Baltimore’s gun violence
December 13, 2022
Solutions should account for needs, histories of Baltimore communities
What Black people should be paying attention to in the 2022 Maryland General Election
October 27, 2022
The issues on the ballot affecting Black people you need to pay attention to.
Reparations for the war on drugs in Maryland
August 26, 2022
Every county in Maryland will eventually have to pass an ordinance that will determine how they spend their portion of the Community Repair and Reinvestment Fund created by HB 837.
Opinion: The Maryland Democratic Party in 2022
August 24, 2022
Black people in Maryland, as is the case around the U.S., are a captured electorate of the Democratic Party. The core of the party, which is dominated by an overwhelmingly white donor class (made up of white corporate and political elites and a multiracial gatekeeper class), has benefited more from Black people’s consistent patronage than Black people have benefited from Democratic Party representation.
Op-ed: The case against Katie O’Malley
July 18, 2022
Voting against Judge O’Malley for AG is not about a rejection of her as an individual, but of the political machine that she represents that has a history of reproducing oppressive systems.