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2020 has been a year of moral reckoning. The Black Lives Matter protests of this summer raised awareness of structural racism in the United…
The COVID pandemic has presented us with a string of important medical questions to which we initially had no answers, such as: How contagious…
Let’s be grateful for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. No kidding. Sure, many think she has been President Trump’s worst cabinet appointment, which…
During the past six months, we have seen Marylanders across the state step up to help friends and neighbors in need. Strangers are making…
I am the mother of Gary Hopkins Jr., who was killed by law enforcement in Prince George’s County. I am the co-founder and executive…
Not long ago, I participated in a “People’s Special Session,” a political action to demonstrate how elected leaders of the Maryland General Assembly could…
The cabin where my great-grandfather Charles King and his family lived as enslaved people still stands today in Gaithersburg. Less than 25 miles from…
The following is an open letter to the Montgomery County Council: Changes in zoning are a part of government that generally get very little…
Leaving from his vacation house in the Nation’s Summer Capital of Rehoboth Beach, Del., a month ago, former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic…
Recently, I ventured into my office, after six months of virtual County Council sessions this year, with one purpose — retrieving the original Purple…