Mashai Small, a Black mother and abolitionist, shares her harrowing experience of having her children forcibly removed by Maryland’s child welfare system, which she and others call the “family policing system,” exposing its disproportionate and traumatizing impact on Black families. Now advocating for systemic change, she urges others to join the Black Mothers March in D.C. this Mother’s Day weekend to demand accountability, justice, and the protection of Black families.
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Hot off the press: News impacting the Black community in D.C., Maryland and Virginia area
A six-year-old boy was shot and killed during a Fourth of July celebration in Temple Hills, MD, while four people have died from heat-related deaths in Prince George’s County, and a rash of armed bank robberies have been reported in the region.
