District 4 residents advocate for Congressman Glenn Ivey to call for a permanent ceasefire.

In Prince George's County and across the state, returning citizens often struggle to find stable housing, lack the job skills necessary for gainful employment, or have a lack of education; and many struggle with mental health and addiction issues, sometimes with these aforementioned issues co-occurring. Some lack sufficient medical care. Some have no social or family support.

Recognizing the problem, PG County Changemakers, a grassroots non-profit organization based in Prince George’s County, began supporting the implementation of a basic income. On April 4, the county council passed legislation to implement a basic income program, one modeled after San Diego basic income program.

On June 29, Prince George’s County Police Department held a press conference highlighting their approach to preventing, what they believe, the potential increase in summer carjackings and other crimes.

Veronica Gallardo, the new executive director, and her team of historians have shifted away from the Booth-Confederacy-centered storyline. Instead, they are telling a more comprehensive history, one that digs deeper into the Surratt family’s existence in Prince George’s County, their politics, and the family’s participation in Maryland’s slavocracy. 

Over a two-day period, the air quality in D.C. and Maryland has increasingly gotten worse. Today, environmental protection agencies have issued a Code Red Alert. The region’s air quality is negatively affected by wildfires in New Jersey, and Nova Scotia, Canada, according to various news outlets. Wildfire smoke is also affecting New York and South Carolina. In DC and Maryland, it is believed that the smog should thin out by Saturday. DC has canceled all outside activities for its school system. Prince George’s County has made no such announcement.

When white people lynched Thomas Juricks in Prince George’s County, they wanted that act of injustice toward the Black community to be justice for their community. Lynching was not only used to mutilate his body, but it also acted as another form of a scarlet letter. In the white-led local newspapers, Juricks would be known as another Black man who was justly killed. Activists, community members, and historians gathered to retell Juricks’ story –to reset the record.

Linda Marshall, 66, is crying against the backdrop of her great-grandson making baby sounds in the background. She loves him and is happy that he is in the world. For now, he is in her care. She is grieving the imprisonment of Leara Davis, her granddaughter; the conditions of the prison that her granddaughter has to navigate post-pregnancy; and the separation of her granddaughter from her son.

The meeting was organized by newly elected Wala Blegay, district 6. The event was a response to the ongoing carjackings, and the senseless killing of Jayz Agnew, a teenager who was killed by a still unknown suspect while raking leaves in his yard.

“I think any of the narratives that children are the driving factor in increased crime in our community is driven by the police or other  individuals who believe children should be locked up.”

A church in Southeast, Washington, DC is working to build housing for its residents in a highly gentrified city.

According to a recent Pew Research, a majority of Black Americans support the legalization of marijuana in the United States. Nearly 60 percent of Black people, U.S. born and immigrants, Democrats and Republicans, say that marijuana should be legalized for medical and recreational use. This national trend is also reflected in Maryland, an increasingly diverse state that may be on the cusp of electing its first African American governor.