For 8 decades, our beloved Maryland has had a dismally racist State Song which calls Lincoln a “tyrant” and was sung as Confederate propaganda by Robert E. Lee’s troops. This is absurd and embarrassing. Maryland is a state all about the struggle for freedom and democracy. Yesterday at the Democratic National Convention my co-creator Steve Jones and I released our candidate for new state song, “Maryland My Maryland: the Free State Song.” Inspired by Elise Bryant of the D.C. Labor Chorus, it was a