Category: Commentary
Pride Month should not be uncritically celebrated by Black people
Now that LGBTQ Pride Month is at an end, Baltimore residents must analyze our observance of Pride Month. It’s a time set aside to honor the resilience, culture, and political victories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. For many, it’s seen as a celebration of progress and inclusion. But for Black in Baltimore and America, this month raises urgent questions that too few of us are asking — and even fewer are willing to answer honestly.
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Baltimore City’s Consent Decree: A Lifeline in Jeopardy as Justice Department Retreats from Reform
Baltimore City stands at a crossroads—between fragile progress and a perilous retreat. As the U.S. Department of Justice continues scaling back its civil rights oversight, the city’s landmark police reform agreement—the consent decree born after the death of Freddie Gray—is under growing threat.
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Safeguarding Maryland’s Educator Pipeline: A Response to FY 2026 Federal Budget Cuts
The Trump Administration’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026 sends a troubling signal to educators and families across the country. It calls for deep cuts—or outright eliminations—of several federal programs that support teacher training, diversity, and development. The list includes the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP), the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence, Title II-A, and the IDEA Part D Personnel Preparation program. These aren’t just line items on a spreadsheet. They are lifelines for public education systems already stretched thin, particularly in states like Maryland.
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Maryland’s Civil War history offers insight into current immigration battles
Maryland’s legal history—and its current struggles—offer sharp insight into today’s most pressing...
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Governor Moore’s Travels not a very good story
Today we learned that our Governor Wes Moore has returned from his economic development trip to South Korea and Japan, saying: “that his role as Maryland’s chief executive has changed with what he refers to as the chaos coming from Washington.
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YEP! We Can: Creating Pathways and Programs for Howard County’s Young People
In the Spring of 2023, recognizing the increased violence among young people and the need for greater positive interventions, we launched Howard County’s Youth Engagement Programming initiative, fondly known as YEP! This transformational program strives to create more opportunities to engage our young people outside of traditional school hours.
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The Real Consequences of Stripping Away Support from Baltimore’s Hardworking Families
What does it mean to work yourself to the bone and still come up short? Ask the mother in...
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The Van, the Flight, and the Machinery of Harm
What Freddie Gray and Kilmar Abrego Garcia Reveal About Us Sometimes, the stories that stay with...
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New tech tax targets an industry Maryland wants to grow
The following column appears in the May issue of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne...
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The Maryland Values Act Just Passed the General Assembly: Here’s What That Means
While the nation’s political landscape is dividing, Maryland made a bold decision: to refuse to...
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Act Now or Pay Later: The Looming Social Security Crisis and America’s Debt Reckoning
Congress is playing a dangerous game of chicken with Social Security, and the clock is ticking. In less than a decade, the program’s trust fund is set to reach insolvency, triggering automatic 21% benefit cuts for millions of Americans by 2033. This isn’t speculation—it’s already written into law. The real question isn’t if it will happen, but which political party will shoulder the blame.
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Okinawa: 80th anniversary of the bloody final invasion of the Pacific War
Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County.
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