In the West Baltimore neighborhood that bookended Freddie Gray’s foreshortened life and far beyond it, the realization quickly set in.
“Nobody is getting punished for it,” said Medina Gaither, 54, a resident of Gilmor Homes who had known Gray since he was a little boy.
“This is awful,” the actress Kerry Washington tweeted shortly after prosecutors announced Wednesday morning they were dismissing charges against the remaining officers, having failed to garner convictions in four previous tria
Lor Scoota speaks on a panel of Baltimore rappers at Frederick Douglass High School on May 5, 2015, a few weeks after the death of Freddie Gray. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
He was a rapper trying to stop violence in Baltimore. Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, had just finished hosting a charity basketball game. The fliers advertising the event had said, “Pray for peace in these streets.” Music artists and important faces from around the city had come together to prove they
Thousands of black men from around the nation, including dozens from Baltimore, came to the National Mall Saturday to honor the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March — and to call for changes in policing and in black communities.
They carried signs that said “Justice or else” and “How will the media misrepresent us today?” Students from Howard University held their fists high in the air and chanted “Black power!”
Among the attendees was Cortez Elliott, 32, of Baltimore, who organized a b
President Obama addressed the ongoing crisis in Baltimore on Tuesday both in a Rose Garden news conference and in a radio interview recorded with Steve Harvey. (Jim Lo Scalzo / European Pressphoto Agency)
Police departments have a lot of work to do to build trust with the African American communities they serve, President Obama said in an interview that aired Wednesday, but remarked that officers in Baltimore showed appropriate restraint in recent days.
Obama condemned the violence of the c
No way this can happen in our city.
That’s the message Ray Lewis has in light of the horrible riots that have ensued in his adopted hometown of Baltimore the past two days, with the National Guard being called in for support.
The former Baltimore Ravens great posted a video on Youtube, calling for peace in a time of madness.
“Young kids, you gotta understand something,” an impassioned Lewis pleads. “Get off the streets. Violence is not the answer. Violence has never been the answer.”
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For young Ed McCree, enslaved on a thousand-acre Georgia cotton plantation, Christmas and New Year’s Day 150 years ago were like none he’d ever known. After time off for Christmas and feasts with young pigs, cattle, and peaches (still summer-sweet because they were packed in wheat straw and cottonseed that kept them fresh), New Year’s Day typically meant that McCree would be again forced to carry buckets of water to the men and women working in the fields.
The difference that December 1864? Wi
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy would be okay with an NFL team signing Ray Rice. (Mike Garafolo/The Star-Ledger)
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy would be fine with signing ex-Baltimore Ravens and Rutgers running back Ray Rice, even with all the baggage and media attention he’d bring with him.
Here’s what Dungy said on Sunday’s “Football Night in America”:
“I would [pick up Rice] under one condition. Ray Rice made a terrible mistake, but he paid the penalty from the League and from the legal system.
By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about the horrific video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancée unconscious inside a casino elevator. The Ravens have terminated Rice’s contract, and the NFL has placed him on indefinite suspension.
Rice’s actions were reprehensible, and the NFL’s handling of the matter at this point has been questionable at best, and shameful at worst.
Now, what should Christians make of all this? The first thing is perhaps the hardest but certainl
Running back Ray Rice has been indicted for third-degree aggravated assault tied to an altercation with his fiancée last month at an Atlantic City casino. (PHOTO CREDIT: AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was indicted by a grand jury Thursday on third-degree aggravated assault for allegedly striking his fiancée unconscious last month.
Rice was arrested and charged with simple assault-domestic violence on Feb. 15 after a physical altercation with his fiancée, Janay Pal
