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Howard County ready to reimagine its 56-year-old flag

After 56 years, steps are under way to design and select a new flag to represent Howard County. A 19-member commission has been formed that will accept designs and recommendations from the public for a new flag, County Executive Calvin Ball stated in a news release Monday. “The Howard County flag should represent the vibrancy and incredible diversity of our community,” Ball said. “Our process . ....

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Maryland NAACP leader blasts Gov. Larry Hogan's posthumous pardons of lynching victims as 'political posturing'


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The head of Maryland’s NAACP on Sunday lambasted Gov. Larry Hogan’s posthumous pardon of lynching victims as “political posturing,” criticizing the Republican governor for issuing a blanket pardon of dozens of the state’s Black victims even though many were never convicted of any crimes, but merely charged or accused of wrongdoing before they were killed.
The scathing criticism comes after Hogan on Saturday issued the blanket pardons for Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black child who was hanged from a sycamore tree after he was convicted of raping and assaulting a White woman, and 33 other victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. ....

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