In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Explaining the policy, Baltimore’s mayor proclaimed, “Blacks should be quarantined in [...]
David Simon is Baltimore’s best-known chronicler of life on the hard streets. He worked for The Baltimore Sun city desk for a dozen years, wrote “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” (1991) and with former homicide detective THE CORNER: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF [...]
BALTIMORE — AT the moment, what’s going on in Baltimore seems to be all about Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who was viciously attacked by police officers on April 12 more or less because he looked at them. They subdued him; his spine [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. April 28, 2015 2:18 PM EDT Updated: April 28, 2015 2:59 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; Unknown Source/Social Media As most Americans were sitting down to dinner Monday night, Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan was declaring a state [...]
By rboylorn | Originally Published at The Crunk Feminist Collective. Photograph; A Baltimore mom, her only son, love, and Freddie Gray. I planned to write a blog about the unconscionable inconsolable injustice that is plaguing the black community right now. I was going to write about how [...]
On Feb. 10, 2013, 31-year-old sheriff's deputy Cory Cooper pulled over a 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend in Omaha, Nebraska. After finding marijuana in the vehicle, Cooper ordered the boyfriend to toss the drug in the nearby Zorinsky Lake, according to the Omaha World-Herald. While the [...]
Local advocates are poised to win a campaign for justice that’s broader than individual civil suits can offer. By Zach Stafford | Originally Published at The Nation. April 22, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Stanley Wrice speaks with the media after being released from prison after [...]
There is no doubt that cheating occurred in Atlanta Public Schools (APS), and that it was systemic, pervasive and involved dozens of educators across many schools. The fact that there was extreme pressure placed on educators to obtain higher test scores, and that unrealistic goals [...]
Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks may be the next face featured on the U.S. $20 bill—that is if WomenOn20s (W20), a grassroots organization committed to the realization of female representation on the nation’s currency, has anything to say about it. After a “robust” voting process spearheaded [...]
