To Del. Aletheia McCaskill (D-Baltimore County), “in some ways, this moment still doesn’t feel real.”
This moment is the pending launch of a Reparations Commission, years after it was first proposed and 17 months after it was passed by lawmakers, vetoed by the governor as unnecessary and then overridden by the General Assembly.
“I am excited to see the Commission is moving forward and we will be convening to begin the historic work of examining the historic and modern impacts of slavery and racial discrimination here in Maryland,” McCaskill, a leader of the fight for the commission, said in a statement Friday…