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On Being Useful: Bearing Witness in a Time of Protest
By Candace Lloh For the past few days, I have been studying lead poisoning. Like many others out there in the interweb world, my knowledge on a lot of things only stretches as far as my social media feeds, the … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray, health, lead paint, protests, race
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Baltimore Mayor Asks Feds To Investigate Police Department
By Eyder Peralta View image | gettyimages.com Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has asked the Justice Department to open up a civil rights investigation into the city’s police department. “Such an investigation is essential if we are to build on the … Continue reading
In Baltimore we need protest in all its forms. Even joyful ones
By Steven W Thrasher View image | gettyimages.com Spots of joy are necessary and needed in the seemingly endless fight for justice. In Baltimore on Tuesday night, as the city reeled from how the death of Freddie Gray exposed the … Continue reading
Are We Witnessing the Emergence of A Black Spring?
By Priscilla Ocen & Khaled A. Beydoun View image | gettyimages.com In the spring of 2010, we witnessed massive protests in the Arab World. The people of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya had enough; they had enough of the violence propagated … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Black America, Black Lives Matter, Chicago, civil rights, Cleveland, Ferguson, inequality, life, New York, politics, protests, race, United States
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As Black And Brown People Protest Cop Killings, Whites Don’t See Institutional Racism
By Vanessa Baden Kelly As Freddie Gray was laid to rest, Americans watched as Baltimore residents protested the death of the 25 year old, whose spinal chord “mysteriously” snapped while in police custody–causing his death. On Friday, six officers were … Continue reading
The enduring shame of ‘separate and unequal’
By Katrina vanden Heuvel ` In July 1966, James Baldwin published “A Report from Occupied Territory,” a despairing essay in The Nation contemplating race relations in Harlem and other American cities. Describing the deep sense of alienation and despair in … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, history, inequality, James Baldwin, politics, race, race relations, racism, The Nation
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The Curse of Segregation
By Derek Thompson Baltimore did not need more negative publicity this week. But in a bit of fateful timing, the Equality of Opportunity Project of Harvard University has released two papers concluding that the income mobility for poor children in … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, black, discrimination, race, racism, Segregation, United States
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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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‘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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‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’
By Jay Caspian King On the evening of April 25 at the corner of Pratt and Light Streets, in Baltimore’s revitalized downtown district, more than 100 police officers in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder, shields up. Six officers on … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, facebook, Ferguson, Freddie Gray, internet, Michael Brown, protests, St. Louis County, technology, twitter
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