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Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards

By Dave Zirin If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards, then you can’t understand why Baltimore exploded this week. If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards then you can’t understand why what happened in Baltimore can … Continue reading

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Freddie Gray: Don’t trust the 1% with police reform

By Donald Earl Collins The history of policing in the US has been one of protecting private property, money and lives of the affluent and politically powerful, at least since the NYPD’s founding in 1845. Any new efforts at police … Continue reading

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Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but his family can’t afford a $500,000 bail sum

By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis and Mae Ryan Allen Bullock was charged with eight criminal counts, including rioting and malicious destruction of property, after arriving at Baltimore’s juvenile justice centre with his stepfather, Maurice Hawkins, who said he … Continue reading

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The Freddie Gray Case Should Be A Warning To Reporters Who Print Unfounded Police Leaks

By Carimah Townes The death of Freddie Gray was ruled a homicide and all six officers involved in his arrest and transport face criminal charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter. Announcing the charges at a press conference Friday morning, Prosecutor … Continue reading

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A Ground-Level View of Baltimore’s Protests: Hope, Anger, and Beauty

Photos by Andrew Renneisen, text by Mitchell Grummon       On April 12, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police. One hour later he was comatose. A week later he was dead, succumbing to spinal injuries inflicted while in … Continue reading

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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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#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

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Freddie Gray’s Death Reveals a Dark History of ‘Nickel Rides’ and Police Van Torture

By John Vibes This week, protests and riots erupted in Baltimore, in response to the police murder of an innocent 27-year-old man named Freddie Gray. According to police, Gray was first stopped and arrested by officers at 8:39am on April … Continue reading

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‘All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie Gray’

By Askia Muhammad, Nisa Islam Muhammad, Charles Robinson and Shawn Massie From Staten Island, to Ferguson, to Cleveland, to North Charleston, S.C., now to the city by the Bay, death after death of unarmed Black men by police has stunned … Continue reading

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Nonviolence as Compliance

By Ta-Nehisi Coates Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody … Continue reading

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