BALTIMORE — When Elijah Cummings’s calm baritone came through a police bullhorn Tuesday night urging Baltimore residents to abide by a curfew and head home, young men in the street…
By Stacia L. Brown Baltimore has been resplendently, comfortingly black for as long as I can remember. My mother brought me here from predominantly white Lansing, Michigan in 1984, the…
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet Over the past 24 hours, Maryland politicians have been referring to angry citizens as “thugs” after the mostly peaceful protests over 25-year-old Frieddie Gray’s…
By Rebecca Traister @rtraister “When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives…
By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet Republican presidential candidate Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has done more outreach to the minority community than anyone in his party, denouncing the drug war and…
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet A Baltimore city councilman criticized the use of the word “thug” to describe angry youth in his city, saying those who say it might…
By Max Blumenthal / AlterNet On Monday, the country watched as a band of outside agitators descended on the streets of Baltimore, attacked locals with blunt force, intimidated innocent bystanders,…
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men…
By Mychal Denzel Smith Volunteers working to clean debris around a burned out CVS store are reflected off a smashed window the morning after the uprising in west Baltimore, April 28,…
By Heather Ann Thompson As most Americans were sitting down to dinner Monday night, Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan was declaring a state of emergency in the city of Baltimore. Baltimore was burning,…
A global study of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods revealed that teenagers from Baltimore, a city located just 40 miles from the US capital, are faring worse than their counterparts in…
By Kevin Powell I am from the ghetto. The first 13 years of my life I grew up in the worst slums of Jersey City, New Jersey, my hometown….