N.D.B. Connolly, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting and subsequent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., commentators...
Paul Schwartzman, THE WASHINGTON POST BALTIMORE (The Washington Post) — The six officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray face a litany of charges that...
via ASSOCIATED PRESS 1:50 a.m. (EDT) Police in Portland, Oregon, say an initially peaceful May Day demonstration turned violent Friday evening as a splinter group hurled...
Brett Zongker, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The first log slave quarters with dirt floors to be rebuilt at Thomas Jefferson’s home were formally unveiled...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When teachers harbor subconscious racial bias, they are far more likely to discipline White students less...
Ben Nuckols and Amanda Lee Myers, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, just 35 years old and on the job for less than...
Meredith Cohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When some medical experts look at the choppy, grainy video of Freddie Gray’s arrest, they...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — Thursday night, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts walked alongside dozens of officers asking people to go home...
Juliet Linderman and Amanda Lee Myers, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor announced criminal charges Friday against all six officers suspended after a...
Atlanta (CNN) – A fake name on a Facebook post can still get you in real trouble, especially when you’re threatening to shoot every white...
(Mother Jones) – After Baltimore police and a crowd of teens clashed near the Mondawmin Mall in northwest Baltimore on Monday afternoon, news reports described...
(The Washington Post) – The Virginia medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a woman at the Fairfax County jail in February was...
(NBC News) – Protests over the death of Freddie Gray stretched coast to coast late Wednesday, with thousands of people across the country rallying for the...
(CNN) – The Baltimore mother who slapped her son several times and pulled him out of a protest told CNN on Wednesday she wasn’t concerned...
(Salon) Dear White America, It is somewhat strange to address this to you, given that I strongly identify with many aspects of your culture and...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made...
(The Washington Post) – It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded. In the more than three decades I have called this city...
BALTIMORE (AP) — A mother who was caught on video smacking her 16-year-old son around after he threw objects at police said when they made...
(Business Insider) – A decade ago, Wilberforce University was struggling but stable. The storied historically black university (HBCU) was in debt, and enrollment was beginning...
(CNN) – At least two people were shot in separate incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, on late Tuesday and early Wednesday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in...
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The Rev. Donte Hickman, pastor of Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore sent out the call for all...
by E.R. Shipp Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Between the bodacious demands of young people practically demanding that York Road motorists honk their...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police...
