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Over the past few years, we’ve watched too many videos and heard too many news reports from across the country about police brutality and…
Death is God’s way of telling us to slow down. For some, the brakes apply early, for others, late, expected and occasionally welcome, a…
When he came home after three years on Riker’s Island, N.Y., and two years spent in solitary confinement, Kalief Browder was changed. He was…
The Trump administration is coordinating a devastating political assault on reproductive health care intended to limit access to birth control, target vulnerable communities, defund…
The spy plane over Baltimore has assumed the properties of God. It is everywhere. It can see everything. So if God sees every sparrow,…
Congressman Elijah Cummings’ untimely departure from the community, state and national stage has left all those who knew him, or knew of him, with…
This much is certain: Anyone who says they know what’s going to go down when the Senate Democratic Caucus meets next Thursday is lying…
We should be able to sit at a baseball game and enjoy a beer and a brat with a friend, even if that friend’s…
Only a state as wealthy as Maryland can afford a General Assembly as generous as its members. The unanswered question is – to what…
Merriam-Webster recently announced the addition of 533 new words to its expansive dictionary along with 4,000 other changes in language usage and meaning –…