Back in January of this year, I received a flyer from the Baltimore Jewish Council for their 2012 Advocacy Day in Annapolis. Many groups conduct “Advocacy Days” during the Maryland General Assembly in order to articulate their political desires,sure up legislative support, and demonstrate their strength in the halls of state legislative/economic power. The...
Do you think ONE Jewish Synagogue or Jewish Organization will donate dollars to the Senator C. Anthony Muse campaign? Do you think ONE Jewish Rabbi or Rabbi Alliance will contact the local Jewish media outlets to tell them they’re putting their support behind someone outside of their community? Do you think that if the...
Press Advisory: For Immediate Release For media queries, please contact the Schools Not Jails Media Team: (410) 849-9626 | schoolsnotjails@gmail.com JANUARY 17: SCHOOLS NOT JAILS ORGANIZERS WILL RETURN TO SITE, DESPITE ARRESTS Organizers of today’s Schools Not Jails Occupation kickoff rally and action say that they have no plans to cancel the program of...
Even as many around the world are honoring the life of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. today; it need be known that celebrating him outside of context amounts to a dangerous narrowing of the Black Freedom Movement tradition in the United States. Dr. King didn’t work alone, but in concert with and propelled by...
Habari Gani? Kujichagulia! which means Self Determination – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. Self-Determination is such a beautiful principle which speaks to the freedom that all individuals and people-groups should be able to rightly exercise. Though not always using the term, I have been writing about “kujichagulia”...
On the same day that Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was being formerly inaugurated into the office of Mayor of Baltimore, State Senator C. Anthony Muse met with Baltimore clergy at First Apostolic Faith Church to share his ideas related to a potential run for U.S. Senate. The Baltimore-native and and Prince George’s County Pastor currently is...
“I think I have some sense of what neighborhoods in Baltimore are like and what they need.”-M.J. “Jay” Brodie, President, Baltimore Development Corporation “I think I have some sense of what neighborhoods in Baltimore are like and what they need.” That was, in part, M.J. Brodie’s response to my critique of his agency’s impact...
MEETING TONIGHT ON THE STEPS OF THE BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’S OFFICE AT 5:00PM (EST) LOCATED: 36 S Charles St # 1600 Baltimore, MD 21201-3015 To brush up on what the Baltimore Development Corporation is and explore it’s role in Baltimore click here to read: “The Baltimore Development Corporation: A Case Study of Economic Development...
Mr. Marshall “Eddie” Conway is a true servant of his community. Imprisoned for more than four decades for the crime of murdering a Baltimore City Police Officer – a crime for which he maintains his innocence – Mr. Conway has not allowed the prison cell to suppress his spirit and will to organize his...
If all goes as planned. Today – October, 4, 2011 – will be a day that is remembered and perhaps even recorded in the “People’s History of Baltimore City.” For the past couple of years a committed group of activists have been challenging Maryland state plans to build a multi-million dollar youth jail in...
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