By: Dayvon Love | Maryland Matters I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward […]
Tom Hall | November 12, 2020 Last May, an Ohio-based company called Persistent Surveillance Systems was granted permission to conduct a six-month trial program in Baltimore — paid for by a foundation in Texas — to determine if an Aerial Investigation Research (AIR) program was an effective way to help local police and prosecutors in […]
Benay Blend | November 9, 2020 Reflecting on the 2020 election, Onyesonwu Chatoyer wrote: “One thing I’ve been reflecting on today is how much election discourse is just poor and working-class people” blaming each other “for not participating in the right way.” An organizer for the All African People’s Revolutionary Party—New Mexico, Chatoyer understands that […]
McKenna Oxendon | November 5, 2020 A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Baltimore’s controversial surveillance plane is constitutional, finding that it is a tool to help police combat rampant crime without invading the rights and privacy of city residents. The three-judge panel pointed to the city’s homicide count — topping 300 each of the […]
Michael A. Fletcher | November 3, 2020 The activist group Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle was widely seen as radical when Dayvon Love helped launch it a decade ago. Suddenly in 2020, much of the country has caught up. The rush of events that upended the nation this year has made issues championed […]
By: Lawrence Grandpre | June 17. 2020 Imagine being stuck in jail in the middle of a global pandemic for selling something now considered an “essential product.” The racialized War on Drugs is making this scenario a reality in prisons and jails across America. With the rise of COVID-19, prisons now serve as petri dishes […]