Social justice

COLUMN | We were at a state park in Kentucky for my wife’s family reunion. It was the kind where someone springs for T-shirts, and the blue-and-gold ones handed out for ours read, “Whole Fam Damily Reunion 2012.” Then the Murdaughs walked in. You know, the Alex Murdaughs.

A federal judge seems prepared to strike down Howard County’s emergency legislation banning private detention centers after a challenge by the developer converting an old office building for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

Thousands of protesters across Maryland took to the streets for May Day, with rallies and marches from Baltimore to Annapolis calling for workers’ rights, lower costs and broader economic reforms.

More than 100 Cephas family members had gathered for one of Dorchester County’s largest family reunions.

Maryland lawmakers on Monday voted to prohibit the use of hotels and other unlicensed settings for children under state care, part of a series of foster care reforms.

COLUMN | Baltimore County violated the state constitution last year when it awarded $30,000 raises to its three orphans’ court judges. It should have known better. But when it comes to the orphans’ court, getting the law wrong is a common outcome.

COLUMN | By the time James Appel, a top Maryland Republican finance expert, set off for the Bahamas in November 2023, he and his wife had upgraded to a 65-foot luxury yacht. That’s what got the Annapolis man in trouble.

Howard County’s Chief of Police Gregory Der is planning to retire from the department on June 1 in the wake of two fatal police-involved incidents.

COLUMN | If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to disqualify mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, Maryland voters will mostly be OK. The unlikely hero? The U.S. Postal Service.

Some of the most ardent and dedicated critics of Trump’s second term, across the country and here in Maryland, are 65 and up. They are organizing rallies for Saturday’s No Kings Day, waving signs on street corners and urging their peers — and their grandchildren — to vote.

OPINION | Baltimore native Pastor Jamal Bryant declared his part of the Target boycott over. We still aren’t going back.

While immigration enforcement has changed, your rights when confronted by officers have not, legal experts and advocates say. Here’s what you need to know.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued DHS, alleging it blocked a state probe into immigrant detention conditions at Baltimore’s Fallon Federal Building.

COLUMN | The pursuit and crash that killed Dimeka Thornton started shortly after midnight on April 8, 2024, in a hotel parking lot in Windsor Mill.

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world.

Charles Albert Tindley, who wrote the lyrics to more than 50 gospel hymns, including what became the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” was molded on the country roads of Worcester County in the waning days of slavery.

An Anne Arundel County delegate, inspired by Sheriff Everett Sesker, is trying to get the Maryland legislature to change an eviction law that only judges in Anne Arundel follow.

Four years after police fatally shot 18-year-old Donnell Rochester, his mother continues calling on city and state officials to punish the officers involved.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore called Jackson a “champion for the dignity of the working people” and a trailblazer in the civil rights movement who led with love and turned “protest into progress.”