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Adopting the Advanced Clean Trucks Rule in Maryland

Trucks and other large vehicles account for 9% of vehicles on the road but contribute 21% of carbon pollution and 48% of particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) emitted by the entire transportation sector in Maryland. In 2020, California made history by implementing the first in the nation standards for cleaning up dirty, highly polluting trucks by adopting the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. This regulation requires that vehicle manufacturers sell an increasing percentage of new zero-emission trucks and school buses. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont and Washington joined California in adopting the ACT rule and Maryland can too. The…

Sherry Logan Interview

Logan is a system engineer who has created a program to train our young adults in the realm of IT Watch full video on YouTube

The One and Only Willie Ricks aka Mukasa

Willie Ricks February 18, 1943 – Raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee “Note: extremely radical, militant individual,” read the arrest card of SNCC’s field organizer, Willie “Mukasa” Ricks. Nicknamed “The Reverend” because of his fiery oratorical style, Ricks was known for his significant contribution to the rhetoric, mobilization and emergence of Black Power. Perhaps no greater example of Ricks’ unique role in the Movement was the Meredith March Against Fear in 1966. It was Stokely Carmichael’s turn to speak, and he was met with an explosive crowd: “We have been saying freedom for six years and we ain’t got nothing.’ What we…

Tycely Williams

Tycely most recently served as Chief Development Officer for America’s Promise Alliance, the largest alliance of youth-serving organizations in the U.S. She’s also advanced philanthropy as vice president of development of YWCA USA, chief development officer for the American Red Cross National Capital Region, association director of major gifts for the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, director of development for two health and human services organizations, artistic director of two community-based dance studios, and executive director for a nonprofit organization founded by a Fortune 500 company. Tycely is a joyful divorcée who enjoys traveling, crashing charitable fundraising galas, taste-testing fried green…