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After mass shooting, Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood goes full year with no homicides
As Baltimore gun violence continues trending downward after years of rampant bloodshed, a historically troubled neighborhood in the city’s southern corner is celebrating a long-awaited victory: zero homicides in over a year.
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It’s Time for Maryland to Pass the Trust Act in Support of Immigrants
March 17, 2021
By William J. McCarthy Jr. Executive Director This piece originally ran in the Catholic Review. Last week, during a return flight from Baghdad, Pope Francis…
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Working for Justice, Even When it Hurts
January 20, 2021
William J. McCarthy Executive Director As I was getting ready to watch the inauguration, I was having a difficult time. This has been an incredibly…
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A Legislative Session Where Nothing Looks the Same – Except Our Mission
January 19, 2021
As the Maryland General Assembly opens the 2021 legislative session, nothing looks the same. Hallways that usually teem with advocates, interns and the public are…
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The Importance of Stories: How One’s Client’s Life Can Affect Another’s
January 19, 2021
When "Letitia" agreed to publicly share her struggle to get a driver's license in 2012, she may not have realized how her story would sow…
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What We Have Seen
January 7, 2021
We are challenged in our lives to be witnesses to history. For many of us, those moments sear themselves into our minds and spirits. This is one of them.
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What connects the tragic killings of George Floyd and Freddie Gray
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer who knelt on his neck for a continuous eight minutes and forty-six seconds while arresting him for the alleged use of a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill.
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