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(L-R) Beverly Carter Esq, Judge Williams, Brooke Lierman, John Carter, and Karen Bond

Celebrating the Center's Expansion to the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center

The room erupts in cheers after Maryland Governor Wes Moore displays a historic executive order pardoning more than 175,000 cannabis-related misdemeanor convictions. (Jerry Jackson/Staff)

Maryland Makes History: Governor Wes Moore Issues Pardons for Over 175K Cannabis Convictions

Dr. Joseph Richardson and Dr. Darryll Pines

Affiliated Faculty Highlight with PS103: Dr. Joseph Richardson, MPower Professor of African-American Studies, Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology

Affiliated Faculty Highlight with PS103: Dr. Stephen Thomas, Founding Director of the UMD Maryland Center for Health Equity

UMD President Darryll J. Pines, Faculty, and Local Leaders Tour Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center (PS103)

Honorable Judge Alexander Williams Jr. Awarded Peter A. DiRito Award

Spectators run for cover as multiple shots ring out during the kickoff of the 2023-2024 varsity football season between the Dunbar Poets and the Loyola Blakefield Dons at William F. “Sugar” Cain Field in Baltimore Friday Sept. 1, 2023. FILE (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff)

Honorable Judge Alexander Williams Provides Commentary on Baltimore Sun: Educating Kids about School Violence Begins at Home

Judge Williams at Black Graduation Walk and Reception

Honorable Judge Alexander Williams Jr. Delivers Keynote Address at the Black Graduation Walk and Reception

A 16-year-old talks to a Sun photographer while under house arrest in his Columbia home. FILE (Sun staff)

Honorable Judge Williams Releases Baltimore Sun Op-Ed on Holistic Juvenile Justice Reform

News & Events

The Rev. Dr. Alvin Hathaway, right, talks with Chuck McCoy, center, of Media Minds Company about a media wall being installed in the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)

Featured in Baltimore Sun: Thurgood Marshall center to mark Baltimore history, serve as launchpad for future

Thurgood Marshall center to mark Baltimore history, serve as launchpad for future By: Jonathan M. Pitts PUBLISHED: June 26, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: June 28, 2024 at 11:04 a.m.

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On CBS News: Baltimore's new Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center honors civil rights icon

Baltimore's new Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center honors civil rights icon By: Jessica Albert BALTIMORE -- Baltimore honored civil Rights icon Thurgood Marshall's legacy by reviving a piece of the city's history.

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Retired U.S. District Court Judge Alexander Williams, director of the UMD center that bears his name, sits in a restored classroom at the new Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center in West Baltimore. It is housed in historic P.S. 103, where the late U.S. Supreme Court justice attended elementary school.

Thurgood Marshall’s Former School Reimagined, With UMD’s Help

Thurgood Marshall’s Former School Reimagined, With UMD’s Help UMD Facilities on Law, Gun Violence and Public Health Anchor New West Baltimore Center

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Dr. Joseph Richardson, Dr. Darryll Pines, and many UMD and Baltimore community members at the Amenity Center

Featured on Black Engineer: West Baltimore’s Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center is now open to the public

On Monday, July 1, 2024, The USBE Information Technology: The Stem Community's Magazine, or also known as US Black Engineer, posted about the grand opening of the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center, otherwise known as P.S.103, to the West Baltimore community.

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Items of Interest

Karen Y. Bond

For over 20 years, Karen’s career trajectory has taken her from non-profit leader roles in higher education to coaching senior executive teams in diversity and inclusion. Previously, Karen held s

Hon. Judge Alexander Williams, Jr.

Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. was nominated by