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Maryland's Broken Parole System: The Cost of Inaction - For an overview of the barriers to parole, the impact on people trapped in the system, the impact on their families, and legislative efforts to address the problem.

The late Congressman John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian

The Legacies of Congressman John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian. On July 18th, 2020 we lost two staunch protectors and advocates of the constant struggle for civil rights in this country.

JUSTICE | BE COURAGEOUS "Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on". — Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

An Inside Look on the Netflix Limited Mini-Series, "When They See Us"

Retired U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. will lead a seven-member panel tasked with investigating the circumstances surrounding the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal.

Judge Alexander Williams Moderating a panel on the Nature and Impact of Gerrymandering

The Big Ten Strategic Partnership for Applied Redistricting Knowledge (SPARK) Conference brought together a multidisciplinary group of experts to discuss address challenges associated with redistricting and gerrymandering

Image of Judge Alexander Williams, c. 1992

SAVE THE DATE | Second Annual Hon. Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. Lecture | Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Life's BluePrint Project: "This is a most important and crucial period in your lives. For what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go" —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., October 26, 1967

“I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around,” President Obama wrote. “Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity.”

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Redevelopment of Thurgood Marshall's former West Baltimore School to Break Ground in 2021

The $8 million conversion of a historic elementary school in West Baltimore into a community hub is finally moving forward.

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After UMD Reports Most Hate Bias Incidents in the State, Students Reflect on Campus Climate

When Keren Binyamin was a freshman, she remembers returning to her dorm room to find phrases like “Free Palestine” and “Israel is a terrorist state” written on the whiteboard outside of her door — equating the actions of the Israeli government with her own.

After UMD Reports Most Hate Bias Incidents in the State, Students Reflect on Campus Climate - Read more

All of Medicine Should be Paying Reparations to Henrietta Lacks

When Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital with cervical cancer in 1951, a researcher took cells from her tumor and discovered that, unlike other human cells, they survived and continued to replicate in the lab.

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An Overdue Debt — Why It’s Finally Time To Pay Reparations To Black Americans

The first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States of America over 400 years ago. In the years that succeeded, a nation was created, divided, reunited, and reconstructed, all while becoming one of the most powerful countries on the planet.

An Overdue Debt — Why It’s Finally Time To Pay Reparations To Black Americans - Read more