Tag Archives: Freddie Gray

Baltimore Protesters Jailed Without Food For Days, Attorneys Say

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Soul Brother

In Kira Lerner   In Baltimore’s Central Booking, protesters and rioters are being withheld food for up to 18 hours, denied medical attention and detained for extended periods of time with up to 20 people in small cells intended to … Continue reading →

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Baltimore Is Not Ferguson. Here’s What It Really Is

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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Charges Against Officers In Freddie Gray’s Death Range From Murder To Manslaughter

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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Baltimore Police Just Arrested Man Who Filmed The Freddie Gray Arrest

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality

Posted on April 29, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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

Posted on April 29, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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White Reservation: The Justification of Breath and Those Who Take It Away 

Posted on April 28, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By T. Better Baldwin April 20, 2015 was just another manic Monday for Lady Justice. Until there is proper distinction between visual impairment and the opaqueness of a blindfold, her fair beauty will only be in the eye of the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 28, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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

Posted on April 28, 2015 by The Soul Brother

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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Baltimore

Posted on April 28, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By David Simon First things first. Yes, there is a lot to be argued, debated, addressed. And this moment, as inevitable as it has sometimes seemed, can still, in the end, prove transformational, if not redemptive for our city. Changes … Continue reading →

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