Social justice

The annual Henson-Nevels family reunion featured a new quilt unveiling, now on display to the public.

Howard County is sending $260,000 in emergency funding to keep Grassroots Crisis Intervention, the nonprofit that answers calls, chats and texts to the national 988 suicide and crisis hotline, afloat after losing its federal funding.

Since April, staff at the century-old St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church has used a couple dozen bunk beds to shelter people who have nowhere else to go.

Human rights advocates are sounding alarms over the detainment of Baltimore resident Christina Pasion in the Philippines.

COLUMN | There’s growing acknowledgment that change is coming for the millions of dollars handed out in grants funded by Live! Casino taxes every year. After 14 years, there’s interest in sharing the wealth.

COLUMN | What if this isn’t about parents’ rights and school bureaucrats? What if the lawsuit and threats to cut off school funding over pronouns and names are about seizing control of schools from local communities? Parents should be asking a lot of tough questions.

COLUMN | Jen Pauliukonis is collecting data on gun violence in the state as no one has before.

The order came a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine, renewing criticism of the agency’s tactics during enforcement operations.

An arrest on the Commodore John Rodgers campus shattered the sense of safety school staff spent years building.

Point Source Youth is bringing direct cash assistance to young people in Baltimore who are at risk of becoming unhoused.

Howard County residents and immigrant rights activists plan to rally Thursday morning outside the federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore ahead of a crucial hearing on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Elkridge.

COLUMN | For eight years, I’ve avoided getting too close to 888 Bestgate, where five friends were murdered on June 28, 2018. It's the dark point on my landscape of regret, and it just smacked me in the face.

After the Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria, fear ricocheted through those communities across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people face the prospect of deportation.

The arrest of Safe Streets worker Antoine Burton, 51, following a shooting on Sunday angered city leaders, including Mayor Brandon Scott, who called the actions “a disgrace.”

As the country prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a growing number of local theaters, museums, artists and performers in the left-leaning suburbs of Washington are highlighting art that protests the Trump administration.

A disagreement over how to notify survivors of sexual assault about decades-old DNA could cost Baltimore County $5.3 million in state funding.

A Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, a divided panel of federal appeal court judges ruled on Monday.

COLUMN | Maybe social media sensation Bobby LaPin can beat state Sen. Bill Ferguson in the Democratic primary for their South Baltimore district. Maybe not. But in Maryland’s usually predictable political landscape, an upset like this has happened before.

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”

COLUMN | Harry Dunn says he didn’t sue to block Donald Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund to help his campaign for Congress. In a district hurt hard by the president’s audacity of greed, it sure should.