Chronic absenteeism in U.S. K–12 schools is gradually declining, and a new EdTrust report suggests rates could be cut in half within five years if states continue expanding early interventions, tutoring, and wraparound supports. The improvements are especially significant for Black students, who remain disproportionately affected but are seeing progress as states adopt data-driven strategies and invest in student well-being.
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Posted inMaryland News
100 unmarked graves, 33 automatic offenses: Maryland must stop failing children
The discovery of 100 unmarked graves near Cheltenham Youth Detention Center highlights Maryland’s failure to protect children in the justice system.
Posted inCommentary
Maryland must reckon with its juvenile justice past to protect today’s youth
By Marc Schindler I started my legal career in the mid-1990s as a Baltimore public defender representing children in juvenile court. In the late 1990s I joined a civil rights law firm addressing juvenile justice policies statewide and across the nation. These experiences taught me two things: The Maryland detention facility where many of my […]
Posted inPrince George's County News
Cheltenham’s lost graves spark push for juvenile justice reform
An overgrown burial ground near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center holds the remains of Black boys who died there more than a century ago—children once confined under Maryland’s segregated juvenile justice system. Now, a state senator is pushing to reform how the state prosecutes youth, linking today’s policies to the system’s unequal and often forgotten past.
Posted inNational News
The National Business League Celebrates 125th Anniversary Reaffirming Commitment to Black Economic Freedom
The National Business League has launched “The Black Economic Freedom Movement” to digitize 1 million Black Business Enterprises by 2028, aiming to strengthen the nation’s first and oldest Black business organization with an ultra-modern digital ecosystem, facilitating direct connections among Black businesses and creating a formidable economic force.
Posted inOpinion
Op-Ed: What to focus on in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly
The Second Look Act, ending the automatic charging of youth as adults, protecting legacy Black homeowners from the tax sale process, and passing a reparations policy are all important issues that should be addressed in Maryland’s upcoming General Assembly.
Posted inAfro Briefs
PRESS ROOM: Justice Department sues Alabama for violating federal law’s prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Secretary of State for violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by removing voters from the registration rolls within 90 days of the General Election.
Posted inLIFE & STYLE
New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors
The Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened July 8, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay. Ceremonies dedicating the $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: […]