By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The movie we are watching in Baltimore is a re-run and a sequel. The price of admission has always been...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist A small section of Baltimore, no more than four to six blocks on the city’s west side, experienced looting...
Alex Ungerman, ET ONLINE (ETonline.com) — As six Baltimore police officers now face criminal charges, including one second-degree murder charge, in the death of 25-year-old Freddie...
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...
(Politico) – A casual CNN viewer would have had good reason this morning to think that the rioting, looting and arson that took place yesterday...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the...
David Dishneau and Joyce M. Rosenberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Richard Sung Kang’s American dream came crashing down in a shower of broken glass....
(The Washington Post) – Is CNN as bad as everyone seems to think it is? Often, yes. The network’s live coverage of Monday’s destructive acts...
BALTIMORE (USA Today) – Lifelong Baltimore resident Shawny Reese didn’t know Freddie “Pepper” Gray and doesn’t know for sure why he ran when he saw...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Having weathered two all-night curfews with no major disturbances, Baltimore officials are now trying...
(Entertainment Weekly) – “Elvis leading a herd of Orthodox Jewish unicorns through a city street, that would be hard to believe,” Stewart said in response. “Ferguson...
(Mother Jones) – After Baltimore police and a crowd of teens clashed near the Mondawmin Mall in northwest Baltimore on Monday afternoon, news reports described...
(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...
(CBS News) – Baltimore native Tommy Bourne happened to catch an angle of the infamous video of Toya Graham. The image of Graham literally laying the...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration Tuesday over recurring black deaths at the...
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...
(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...
