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Lines Between Us: "Am I Asking Too Much?"

Keith Evans.Keith Evans served over four years of a ten-year sentence for selling heroin. He's back out and looking for a job in Baltimore.

In this piece for our series "The Lines Between Us," he tells his story about trying to get a "second chance" and become "a citizen again."


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A Family Discussion about Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Today, Maryland Morning aired a reflection by Bowie State University journalism professor Allissa Richardson about what a hostile interaction at a traditionally white university taught her about the value of historically black institutions.


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Learning the Value of a Historically Black Institution...at a Traditionally White Institution

Allissa Richardson

May 20, 2013

On Friday, Michelle Obama, the first African-American first lady, addressed graduates at Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest historically black institution of higher learning.


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"The Lines Between Us": Taking Inequality to Court

Credit/flickr dionhinchcliffeMay 10, 2013

We didn't have room on-air for the entire interview. In the web extras below, Ted Shaw and Susan Goering discuss inequality in education. First, Missouri v. Jenkins, a case that solidified the U.S. Supreme Court's post-Brown v. Board take on school segregation, then the Bradford case here Maryland, in which the state constitution, not federal guarantees, was used as a basis to challenge inequality in the classroom. They describe what it took to convert the judge’s decision in the courtroom into funding in the classroom via the Thornton formula. Lastly, Ted Shaw tells Sheilah his take on the U.S. Supreme Court and inequality.

audio/mpeg iconMissouri v. Jenkins
audio/mpeg iconThe Bradford case
audio/mpeg iconSupreme Court

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Black Guerilla Family, "Flags of Maryland", Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Beneatha's Place"

The Black Guerilla Family hit the headlines two weeks ago when Tavon White, other inmates and 13 corrections officers were indicted for criminal gang activity at the Baltimore jail. But, B.G.F.’s history reaches back five decades when Black Panther George Jackson started a revolutionary organization to protect prisoner rights. We learn what part of that political ideology is still visible here in Baltimore.


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Furthering "Affirmatively Furthering"

Credit: flickr/FreddyApril 12, 2013

In these web extras, Sheilah talks to Melody Taylor-Blancher about HUD's action against Sussex County in Delaware and to Taylor-Blancher and Dan Pontious about the Baltimore Regional Mobility Program.

audio/mpeg icon0412LINESfairhousing_sussex.mp3
audio/mpeg icon0412LINESfairhousing_BRMP.mp3

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