
The Baltimore uprising seemingly scored a major victory on Friday, when Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, announced the six police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death have been charged with murder, manslaughter and other counts.
The Baltimore uprising seemingly scored a major victory on Friday, when Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, announced the six police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death have been charged with murder, manslaughter and other counts.
Baltimore residents born when Ronald Reagan was elected are now 35, old enough to have children of their own, and many do.
by Carimah Townes CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon Kevin Moore, the man who filmed police arresting Freddie Gray and dragging him on the ground was arrested on Thursday night, along with two other cop…
By Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — Marilyn Mosby walked up to a podium surrounded by TV cameras on Friday morning and dropped a bomb: At her direction, the city of Baltimore…
By Michael Daly The Freddie Gray case now goes from the Baltimore police to the city’s 35-year-old state’s attorney who decided Friday to criminally charge several police officers involved in Gray’s arrest. Baltimore State’s…
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The image has been circulated worldwide, in newspapers, on television and over social media; the Black Baltimore mother who beats her son down for being out with protesters…
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…