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Subscribe Montgomery College will honor the class of 2021 with a virtual celebration this Friday, May 21, beginning at 10 a.m. with a pre-show kicking off the festivities at 9:30 a.m. The event will include remarks by Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard, Board of Trustees Chair, The Honorable Michael Knapp, and the College's four Board of Trustees scholars. The graduates will also be treated to special messages of congratulations from county and state elected officials. There are over 3,000 graduates this spring, having earned approximately 3,500 degrees. There are also 125 graduate...

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May 9, 2021 Governor Larry Hogan issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 victims of racial lynching in Maryland between 1854 and 1933, on the basis that these extrajudicial killings violated fundamental rights to due process and equal protection of law. It is the first time in history that a governor has issued a blanket pardon for the victims of racial lynchings. “The State of Maryland has long been on the forefront of civil rights, dating back to Justice Thurgood Marshall’s legal battle to integrate schools and throughout our national reckoning on race,” said Governor Hogan. “Today, ...

Print Associated Press Maryland's governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced. It was a first-of-its-kind pardon by a governor of a U.S. state. Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order at an event honoring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885 before his attorneys could file an appeal of a rape conviction that an all-white jury reached within minutes. “My hope is ...

Via Office of the Governor’s Flickr. Taken 5/8/2021. Gov. Larry Hogan issued posthumous pardons for 34 victims of racial lynchings in Maryland, including three victims who were killed around the Montgomery County area. “My hope is that this action will, at least in some way, help to right these horrific wrongs. And perhaps to bring a measure of peace to the memories of these individuals and to their descendants and their loved ones,” Hogan said during an event Saturday. Of the 34 victims pardoned between 1854 and 1933, three were killed in the county area, according to the governor’s ...