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OP-ED: Race Neutrality Is a Tool of White Supremacy
January 15, 2021
COMMENTARY: Police Accountability
January 12, 2021
VIDEO: 2020 Black Legislative Agenda Day
December 19, 2020
The Untapped Power of Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus
December 10, 2020
VIDEO: Town Hall for Racial Justice in Maryland (11.20.2020)
November 20, 2020
VIDEO: Why we need to abolish the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights (LEOBR)
November 18, 2020
AUDIO: Baltimore’s “Eye in the Sky” Program: What’s Next?
November 12, 2020
VIDEO: 2020 Election – Reflections & Moving Forward (11.12.2020)
November 12, 2020
COMMENTARY: A Path to Reparations for the War on Drugs
June 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 Security
June 5, 2020
Maryland Democrats: You did this.
May 8, 2020
VIDEO: The Myth of Black Buying Power – a book discussion w/ Dr. Jared Ball
May 7, 2020
COMMENTARY: Still Building – 5 Years after the Baltimore Uprising
April 25, 2020
Update from LBS concerning COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
March 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: Support Our Brothers Behind the Walls
March 11, 2020
When Baltimore Awakes: An analysis of the Human & Social Service Sector in Baltimore City
October 28, 2019
The Disposability of “Violent Criminals”
January 8, 2019
Navigating Bipartisan Anti-Blackness: A Case Study from Maryland
October 31, 2018
Maryland’s Plantation Politics & the MidTerm General Election
October 23, 2018
Black Arts & Black Power: Creating Baltimore’s Black Arts District
July 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 & Boys
October 7, 2017
Baltimore’s Choice: Community Empowerment or the Police Monitoring Industry
August 11, 2017
Mandatory minimums for illegal handguns will NOT stop murders in Baltimore
July 14, 2017
The Baltimore Youth Fund – For Black People When White Saviors Aren’t Enough
June 2, 2017
VIDEO: On Contact – Rise of the New Black Radical with Adam Jackson
May 6, 2017
Will Liberal Hypocrisy in Maryland make another Kalief Browder Inevitable?
April 5, 2017
COLUMN: End political influence of bail bonds industry
March 12, 2017
Why White-Led Advocacy Groups Shouldn’t Negotiate on Black Freedom
February 4, 2017
#DoLikeFannieLou: Strategic (non) Voting for the Sick and Tired Black democrat
October 25, 2016
Courts and Computers Produce Bias Bail; Can Communities Produce Justice?
October 20, 2016
Port Covington Deal Should Prioritize Black Self-Determination & Independence
September 12, 2016
Responding to Dan Rodricks on “Army of Social Workers” in Baltimore
January 7, 2016
Setting the Record Straight on #CityHallShutDown Protests
October 20, 2015
15 Years a Failure: Why Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano Must Go
October 14, 2015
Who’s Afraid of Common Sense?: A Grassroots Response to The Baltimore Sun on Police Reform
September 8, 2015
Meditations in Spring: On A Baltimore Uprising
July 10, 2015
VIDEO: “Black on Black Crime” Decoded
June 22, 2015
Smile for the Camera: The Representational Limits of ‘The Wire’
June 3, 2015
Affirmative Action for Slave Masters
May 23, 2015
Debunking the Illusions of #OneBaltimore
May 19, 2015
New Jail, Same Old Story: Selling Out Baltimore’s Grassroots
May 15, 2015
Fear of a Black Prosecutor: The Maryland FOP’s Subtle Slander of Marilyn Mosby
May 2, 2015
Media follows people, just not THE people, in Baltimore
April 30, 2015
Why do we look? On Gazing at dead Black bodies
April 27, 2015
What Good are Democrats?
April 12, 2015
An Open Letter to the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police
April 1, 2015