Food insecurity is among the major problems in Baltimore which is driven by household income, race, and poverty status.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Maryland which employs the use of for-profit prisons.

Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and needs restoration and protection from urban runoff, nutrient pollution, and habitat degradation.

Maryland fails to inform the mostly black people leaving prison that their voting rights have been restored.

Maryland has good gun laws but continues to have an unacceptable rate of gun deaths near the national average, disproportionately impacting communities of color in Baltimore.