Dodson-Reed: Building on the ‘Black Agenda’

Maryland, like every other state in our union, has confronted a stressful, disturbing, and complex mixture of social injustices, divisive elections, and a global pandemic, all of which continues to highlight inequities in health, education, housing, economic opportunity, and more. And as our country mourns and protests the murders of Black people due to senseless police brutality and mistreatment of people of color, we continue to reckon with the undeniable, ongoing, and sometimes obscured truth of systemic racism.