by CHUCK EPSTEIN Media coverage of the events unfolding in Baltimore connected with the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black , carry a familiar theme: protestors gather to demonstrate…
Dr. Maulana Karenga Part II. It is important to note that Dr. Nathan Hare’s intentionsand initiatives are emancipatory, i.e., focused on and pursued with the liberation of our people as the central…
BY: DIANA OZEMEBHOYA EROMOSEL Freddie Gray YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT Freddie Gray—that was his “government” name; his friends knew him as Pepper—kept the ladies laughing and liked to get fresh with fashion accessories…

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…

Dr. Maulana Karenga Part I. On April 9, Tiamoyo and I had returned to Temple University where I conducted an Indaba (conversation and council) with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students…
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…