Social justice

Maryland was the first state to submit and receive approval for its reimbursement plan, which will result in over $2.5 million in stolen SNAP benefits being disbursed among more than 3,800 victims.

A U.S. government official moved to censor W.E.B. DuBois in the months after World War I for challenging racial injustice in an editorial published in the magazine of the NAACP, Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says. During that era, some inside the government sought to prevent distribution of Black newspapers and magazines that published anti-lynching editorials and other work by Black journalists, Wickham says.

Draper was eminently qualified to practice law in Maryland when he applied for admission to the Maryland Bar in 1857 but was denied admission because he was Black. Attorney John G. Browning says admitting Draper to the Maryland Bar posthumously is a step toward reckoning with the history of discrimination in the legal profession.

Scenes from Wes Moore's Inaugural Ball, held at the Baltimore Convention Center, after he was sworn in as Maryland's 63rd Governor on Wednesday, January 18, 2023.

A memorable photograph captures Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 visit to Baltimore a short time after he was announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It was a time of national turmoil and transformation, and King was confronting profound challenges from outside and inside the civil rights movement.

The FDA changed its rules to allow the abortion pill to be obtained at the pharmacy counter instead of in-person from a provider. It’s up to pharmacies whether they will comply.

Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

If passed, the measure would require health care institutions to communicate about debt with consumers and cap the annual interest rate growth for medical debt at 5%.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign the Respect for Marriage Act into law.

The survivors and advocates include two women who say they were violently raped by a priest while students at Archbishop Keough High School. The women decried the fact that church leaders have been able to read the report while they — victims whose testimony helped investigators — have been barred from seeing it.

A woman and her 9-year-old son were evicted two days before Thanksgiving — even after she says she confirmed that morning that she was caught up on rent.

State officials are seeking to release a 456-page investigation of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore over 80 years that identifies 158 priests who are said to have abused more than 600 victims.

A state delegate says more people feel empowered since Maryland joined other states two years ago in banning discrimination against Black hairstyles such as Afros, locks and braids.

This recent wave of collective bargaining has been catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing wealth gap, according to workers, labor organizers and experts.

Thanks to the state's cheap and easy filing process, eviction filing rates in Maryland far outpace those of neighboring states, creating additional costs for tenants.

City officials will hear from CSX about the explosion in Curtis Bay late last year.

"We know there are many more African American people who have done saintly things for the Church in spite of what the Church has done to them.”

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

Rushdie was stabbed in the abdomen and neck Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture.

Joe Toolan and Jeremy Browning hope the new Maryland Commission on LGBTQ Affairs will elevate the diverse community's concerns.