Commentary from our leadership team on issues affecting our community.

COMMENTARY: A Path to Reparations for the War on DrugsJune 17, 2020
VIDEO: Moving from Protest to Policy after the nationwide demonstrations (6.16.2020)June 16, 2020
The Colonization of “Radical Politics”June 10, 2020
How do we move from protest to policy in #DefundingThePolice?June 8, 2020
Who Speaks for Community? Rejecting a False Choice Between Liberty and SecurityJune 5, 2020
Maryland Democrats: You did this.May 8, 2020
VIDEO: The Myth of Black Buying Power – a book discussion w/ Dr. Jared BallMay 7, 2020
COMMENTARY: Still Building – 5 Years after the Baltimore UprisingApril 25, 2020
Update from LBS concerning COVID-19 (Coronavirus)March 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: Support Our Brothers Behind the WallsMarch 11, 2020
When Baltimore Awakes: An analysis of the Human & Social Service Sector in Baltimore CityOctober 28, 2019
The Disposability of “Violent Criminals”January 8, 2019
Navigating Bipartisan Anti-Blackness: A Case Study from MarylandOctober 31, 2018
Maryland’s Plantation Politics & the MidTerm General ElectionOctober 23, 2018
Black Arts & Black Power: Creating Baltimore’s Black Arts DistrictJuly 6, 2018
The Community Restoration Fund – A Policy Road Map to Reparations for the ‘War on Weed’January 19, 2018
What Happens to a Dream Deferred? – A grassroots study on Baltimore’s Black men & BoysOctober 7, 2017
Baltimore’s Choice: Community Empowerment or the Police Monitoring IndustryAugust 11, 2017
Mandatory minimums for illegal handguns will NOT stop murders in BaltimoreJuly 14, 2017
The Baltimore Youth Fund – For Black People When White Saviors Aren’t EnoughJune 2, 2017
VIDEO: On Contact – Rise of the New Black Radical with Adam JacksonMay 6, 2017
Will Liberal Hypocrisy in Maryland make another Kalief Browder Inevitable?April 5, 2017
COLUMN: End political influence of bail bonds industryMarch 12, 2017
Why White-Led Advocacy Groups Shouldn’t Negotiate on Black FreedomFebruary 4, 2017
#DoLikeFannieLou: Strategic (non) Voting for the Sick and Tired Black democratOctober 25, 2016
Courts and Computers Produce Bias Bail; Can Communities Produce Justice?October 20, 2016
Port Covington Deal Should Prioritize Black Self-Determination & IndependenceSeptember 12, 2016
Responding to Dan Rodricks on “Army of Social Workers” in BaltimoreJanuary 7, 2016
Setting the Record Straight on #CityHallShutDown ProtestsOctober 20, 2015
15 Years a Failure: Why Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano Must GoOctober 14, 2015
Who’s Afraid of Common Sense?: A Grassroots Response to The Baltimore Sun on Police ReformSeptember 8, 2015
Meditations in Spring: On A Baltimore UprisingJuly 10, 2015
VIDEO: “Black on Black Crime” DecodedJune 22, 2015
Smile for the Camera: The Representational Limits of ‘The Wire’June 3, 2015
Affirmative Action for Slave MastersMay 23, 2015
Debunking the Illusions of #OneBaltimoreMay 19, 2015
New Jail, Same Old Story: Selling Out Baltimore’s GrassrootsMay 15, 2015
Fear of a Black Prosecutor: The Maryland FOP’s Subtle Slander of Marilyn MosbyMay 2, 2015
Media follows people, just not THE people, in BaltimoreApril 30, 2015
Why do we look? On Gazing at dead Black bodiesApril 27, 2015
What Good are Democrats?April 12, 2015
An Open Letter to the Maryland Fraternal Order of PoliceApril 1, 2015
The Pitfalls of The Wire’s Depictions of police ViolenceFebruary 20, 2015
What Happens After the Protests? #Hashtag Politics vs. Material StruggleDecember 1, 2014
VIDEO: Baltimore Residents Demand Legislative Action to End Police ImpunityNovember 23, 2014
This ‘Diversity’ Stuff Can Kill You: What I Learned as a Black Man at America’s Least Diverse Elite College September 29, 2014
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake: A Mannequin in the Shopping Mall of Democracy.September 22, 2014
Mike Brown, Ferguson and the Criminalization of Black sentienceAugust 27, 2014
FOLLOW UP: White power and Black voicesAugust 7, 2014
White power and Black voices: Why we can’t rely on “good white people”July 22, 2014