Special thanks to Vikki Law from Truthout Magazine for covering the grassroots effort to stop Baltimore's youth jail. Full article availabe on Truth-out.org
As a relatively young Black leader in Baltimore, I refuse to be a meal ticket for white people who are not genuinely invested in the Black community. There are too many Black children’s lives at stake to play polite parlor games for grant money, prestige and status with white liberals.
In a day when schools, recreation centers, and pools are dancing on the edge of closure because of alleged state and municipal funding restrictions, it’s time for Governor Martin O’Malley to work with us to move Maryland forward not back!