The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.
The battle before, during and after the election
Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t always practice what he preached. Jackson ran insurgent campaigns in 1984 and 1988, and the only thing that has come close since are the presidential runs of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Freedom in Reproduction-Maryland is taking the lead, working with other abortion rights groups to persuade voters to approve the new language in an informational campaign called “Vote Yes on Reproductive Freedom."
In Maryland, it is often college leadership that opposes allowing faculty and graduate students to unionize. This is no different than other manager versus labor battles witnessed across numerous industries.
The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.
The right is on the march — but not without resistance
Resisting racist police violence and voter suppression, and the beat goes on
Cutbacks in housing, healthcare, public transportation and economic opportunities and the criminalization of underground economy jobs, like sex work and the sale of illicit drugs, lead to increased incarceration and declining public safety.
While only 31% of Maryland residents are black, more than 70% of Maryland’s prison population is black, a percentage that is more than twice the national average. And about 80% of people serving 10 years or more in Maryland prisons are black.
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