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The Big Cases At The Supreme Court That You Haven’t Heard About
By Ian Millhiser The Supreme Court heard this term’s final day of oral arguments on Wednesday, a day that included a truly ghoulish debate over how states can execute death row inmates. By the first days of July, the justices … Continue reading
Baltimore Police Officer Calls For Community And Cops To Come Together, Tells Demonstrators: ‘I’m Here For You’
By Sebastian Murdock In the days since thousands of protesters in Baltimore, Maryland have declared black lives matter and demanded an end to police brutality, one officer is reminding her community that working together is the only way to move … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore Police, Block party, Freddie Gray, protests, race, Sgt. K Glanville
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Video footage shows 4 black parole officers held at gunpoint by police
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LGBT People of Color More Likely to Face Poverty
By Marisa Taylor LGBT people of color face a high risk of suffering from poverty because of discrimination and lack of strong legal protections, according to a new report released on Thursday. An estimated 3 million American adults identify as … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination, homelessness, LGBT, LGBT rights, poverty, United States
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How Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Changed These Workers’ Lives
By Dave Jamieson In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a minimum wage of $15 per hour for certain workers. When the new law went into effect last year, Sammi Babakrkhil … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, income inequality, job, low wages, minimum wage, Seattle, wage increase, wages
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‘Baltimore For Real’: A Tour Through Troubled Sandtown
By Nurith Aizenman Travon Addison is an athletic 25-year-old, with short cropped hair, a wispy beard and tattoos all over his arms. I first spot him with a pack of his buddies in the lobby of Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray shooting, race, Sandtown
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Baltimore’s Poor White Residents Harassment
By Wilson Dizard Pigtown is a Baltimore neighborhood some two miles south of Sandtown, Freddie Gray’s neighborhood. Gray’s death on April 19, a week after the 25-year-old black man was arrested and suffered injuries while in police custody, triggered mass … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Billyland, Pigtown, police abuse, race
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As investigation enters fifth month, Tamir Rice’s mother has moved into a homeless shelter
By Wesley Lowery The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy gun in a Westside park in November, to halt their civil lawsuit until the … Continue reading
Help Baltimore by Restoring Voting Rights to Ex-Felons
By Ari Berman Freddie Gray’s neighborhood in Baltimore had the highest incarceration rate of anywhere in the city. More than 450 adults from Sandtown-Winchester are in state prison, and one in four juveniles were arrested from 2005 to 2009. These statistics … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, felony conviction, justice, law, Maryland, mass incarceration, politics, race, voting, voting rights
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