Baltimore Councilman Proposes $15M Racial Equity Fund

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore city councilman plans to introduce legislation that would require each city agency to assess its policies and establish an annual fund, a two-pronged approach to eliminating “structural and institutional racism.”
Council Public Safety Committee Chair Brandon Scott told The Baltimore Sun the two bills he plans to introduce Monday aim to address Baltimore’s history of codified “racial inequity.”
One bill would mandate agencies develo