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There is a direct line between the message of systemic racism that has been playing out across America and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19…
I remember being in the tear-gassed streets of Baltimore in 2015 following the announcement that Freddie Gray had died from injuries sustained while in…
We are all wondering how the United States will heal after the pandemic. The future should have better jobs, an improved health care system,…
When I was 14 and 9 months I took my first job at a noodle bar near my coming-of-age home in Owings Mills. It…
On race, America is like an old, defective, complicated electrical equipment with frayed and exposed wires, fuses blowing all the time and frequently bursting…
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said it simply: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” The eruptions across the country are built…
Tucked between an early wrongful death statute titled “Negligence” and an article governing “Notaries Public,” sits Article 66 of the Maryland Code of 1860….
I want to share some personal thoughts about the video that we’ve all seen by now of the murder of George Floyd, an African…
On May 30, the superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Dr. George Arlotto, released a statement addressing the killing of George Floyd and…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the grossly inadequate protection of Maryland residents in nursing homes where over 50% of the deaths from the novel…