Maryland
Baltimore political operative on trial over claim he tried to suppress black vote
Julius Henson, a legendary Baltimore campaign consultant who’s been involved in politics for decades, took his seat Monday morning at the defense table to face trial on accusations that he tried to suppress the black vote with shady robo-calls. In an unusual case of allegedly deceptive and criminal political strategy, the 63-year-old veteran operative is [...]
U.S. Department of Education to investigate NAACP complaint against Arundel schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said that it will investigate allegations by the Anne Arundel branch of the NAACP that the county’s school system discriminates against African-American students when meting out discipline. The office’s March 29 decision came in response to a formal complaint filed last year by the National Association [...]
Maryland Has a Historic Opportunity to Improve the State’s Health and Reduce Health Inequities
Maryland ranks near the bottom third among states in health, in large part because of significant inequities among our state’s racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. African Americans in Maryland, for example, face infant mortality rates that are nearly three times higher than white Maryland residents. Latinos are over four times more likely than whites to [...]
Maryland HBCU Desegregation Trial Nearing An End
After six weeks of testimony, a major trial to determine whether Maryland’s four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been routinely denied funding and other needed resources that would have made them “comparable and competitive” with White universities in the state is expected to end this week, with a ruling expected by this summer. [...]
Trial focuses on whether Md. black colleges receive enough state funding, support
A trial began Tuesday in Baltimore to settle a federal lawsuit that alleges Maryland’s historically black colleges receive too little funding and institutional support to fully overcome past generations of state-sponsored discrimination. The case hinges partly on whether Maryland spends enough money on its historically black public institutions to correct decades of disparity, a point [...]
