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During the 2020 legislative session, I, together with my Senate Champion, Sen. Jill Carter, jointly introduced HB 1449\SB 1012 “Health – Medical Cannabis Reauthorization…

Disregarding advice presented by local and national election experts. Ignoring voting rights advocates. Flouting the recommendations of health care professionals and the Centers for…

I can remember the first time I heard the story of the Stonewall uprising — the night 50 years ago when Black drag queens…

Economics is the study of money in motion. Idle money, or the lack of it, does nobody any good. Extrapolation is risky business. But…

I believe that two things must change before any other police reform can be successful. The first is the organizational culture of lying and…

In 1852, the Maryland-born abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to address the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association’s 4th of July celebration in Rochester, N.Y. President…

Being purely driven by my desire to practice Sankofa from the Twi language of Ghana, meaning to go back and get it, I found…

When George Floyd was killed under the knee of Derek Chauvin, many Americans asked why didn’t anyone stop him. That question stuck in my…

“It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater) A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater Sure looks…

Brown

Maryland Matters published a lengthy interview between reporter Bruce DePuyt and Congressman Anthony G. Brown (D-Md.), during the course of which Brown launched a…