Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley began his political ascendancy during the 1990s by challenging the crime numbers of the Baltimore City Police Department when he was one of three councilmen in the old Third District of Baltimore City. O’Malley argued the department’s crime statistics, specifically homicides and shootings, just didn’t add up and the burgeoning politician […]
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AFRO Baltimore Editor
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Let the Games Begin
July 6, the filing deadline for the 2010 elections across the state, came and went with few surprises. Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler sparked a firestorm and riled up a lot of Republicans and probably some Democrats back in February (when we were buried in snow!), over his support of gay marriage. But, it seems […]
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Baltimore Agrees to Pay for ‘Illegal Arrests’
In the wake of a report earlier this month that indicated Baltimore locks up a higher percentage of its population than any major metropolitan area in the nation, the city agreed to pay $870,000 to the victims of what some call “illegal arrests.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the […]
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Segregate or Integrate, but Educate at all Costs
In Part I: With the Murray appeal still pending, Marshall and Houston were engaged in two very important Maryland battles simultaneously, the equal pay for Colored teachers case that was burgeoning in Anne Arundel County in 1936 and the Baltimore County school desegregation case in 1935. There were about 40 enclaves in Baltimore County with […]