By Jelani Cobb The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was among thousands who attended the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died of injuries received while in police custody. Credit Photograph by Chip…
By: Ericka Blount Danois A mass of young people, 4,000 strong, locked arms Wednesday and marched from Amtrak’s Penn Station in Baltimore down to City Hall to protest the death of Freddie…
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…
Photo: Jose Luis Magana / Reuters In Baltimore, where 25-year-old Freddie Gray died shortly after being taken into police custody, an investigation may uncover homicidal misconduct by law enforcement, as…
By Bill Quigley / AlterNet Were you shocked at the disruption in Baltimore? What is more shocking is daily life in Baltimore, a city of 622,000 which is 63 percent African American. Here are…
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