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Baltimore Is Not Ferguson. Here’s What It Really Is
By Steve Inskeep This week’s Baltimore riot could not have happened to a nicer city. Baltimore residents welcome strangers and even call them “hon.” They sit on benches painted with the slogan “The Greatest City in America.” Baltimore is also … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Baltimore, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, police abuse, race
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The “Shocking” Statistics of Racial Disparity in Baltimore
By Bill Quigley 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 ten numbers that tell some of the story. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, health, income inequality, mass incarceration, race, unemployment
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Charges Against Officers In Freddie Gray’s Death Range From Murder To Manslaughter
The death of Freddie Gray was a homicide, and there is “probable cause” for criminal charges, Baltimore lead prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby says, citing her office’s “thorough and independent” investigation and the medical examiner’s report on Gray’s death. Mosby, the … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Baltimore, Freddie Gray, justice, law, Marilyn Mosby, police abuse, race, United States
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Freddie Gray’s Attorney on the Benefits of Body Cameras
By Conor Friedersdorf On Tuesday night William Murphy, the attorney representing Freddie Gray’s family, gave a televised address to an audience in a Baltimore church. As MSNBC cut to his remarks he was reflecting on black America’s long experience of … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, body cameras, cameras, Freddy Gray, police reform, prejudice, race, technology
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The Clock Didn’t Start With the Riots
By Ta-Nehisi Coates About a year ago, I published “The Case for Reparations,” which I thought in many ways was incomplete. It was about housing and how wealth is built in this country and why certain people have wealth and … Continue reading
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Tagged Jim Crow, politics, race, racism, slavery, social unrest, United States
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Baltimore Police Just Arrested Man Who Filmed The Freddie Gray Arrest
Kevin Moore filmed the police brutally arresting Freddie Gray. That footage went viral and began all of the protests that have been flooding the streets of Baltimore and sweeping the nation ever since. Now, after claiming the police had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Cop Watch, Freddie Gray, harassment, Kevin Moore, police abuse
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Job Sprawl Hurts Minorities and Poor in Suburbia
By Haya El-Nasser Aida “Didi” Nuñez used to have a car and a job she could drive to. Then she lost her job at a community center when funding dried up. And then she had an accident and lost her … Continue reading
Americans are utterly powerless
By Robert Reich A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule and his pay. “They just don’t care,” he said. A traveler I … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, inequality, politics, Robert Reich, United States
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#BlackLivesMatter Co-Founders On Baltimore Uprisings: ‘We Stand In Solidarity’
By Lilly Workneh Following Monday’s funeral of Freddie Gray — a 25-year-old man who died after sustaining a spinal cord injury during an arrest in Baltimore — protests broke out and swept across the streets of the Maryland city. Demonstrators … Continue reading
Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality
By Stacia L. Brown West Baltimore was quiet yesterday morning, as the family of Freddie Gray prepared to lay him to rest. But I still parked my car several blocks south of New Shiloh Baptist Church, where his funeral was … Continue reading
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