By Kelly Hayes, Transformative Spaces | Black Youth Project 100 organizer Breanna Champion leads a moment of silence as hundreds of protestors shut down 55th Street on Chicago’s South Side…
By Chauncey DeVega / AlterNet Baltimore’s young people responded to the police theft of Freddie Gray’s life with protests that eventually grew into a spasm of violence. While the direct…
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet As the unrest has grown in Baltimore, the word “thug” has been freely slung around by political leaders and the media. President Barack Obama…
By: Danielle C. Belton The Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant is emotionally spent. The past 11 days had taken their toll when The Root spoke with Bryant, 43, over the phone Wednesday. We asked…
Baltimore residents were out in force on Tuesday, cleaning up their city and contributing a new round of diplomatic discourse to a tense debate that had boiled over the night before in…
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,…