Ivan Bates is expected to announce tomorrow morning that he’ll be challenging incumbent Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for her seat as the city’s top prosecutor in 2018.
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Police: Suspect Charged in Murder of Warren Brown’s Stepson; Local Rapper in Critical Condition After Stabbing
Police have charged a man seen in a July 1 surveillance video fatally shooting Cody Young, stepson to well-known Baltimore defense attorney Warren Brown.
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Exit Interview: Kwame Kwei-Armah reflects on his time at Center Stage, his upcoming play on Stax Records and more
Over the course of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s seven-year run as artistic director, Baltimore Center Stage regulars have grown accustomed to seeing him walking around during previews, those first few times a production is performed before an audience. The tall, lean, and handsome Kwei-Armah can typically be found dapperly attired and casually milling about, as if just […]
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Police Commissioner Kevin Davis Criticizes Councilman for Criticizing City Police
Kevin Davis is displeased with Councilman Ryan Dorsey’s public take on Baltimore police officers as a whole.
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Police Who Were Cleared in Freddie Gray’s Death Honored at Gala
Three of the Baltimore police officers who were charged, then cleared, in connection with the death of Freddie Gray received a tribute at a recent DC gala.
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Thursday Afternoon Headlines: New Info on Freddie Gray’s Arrest; Amtrak to Pay $265M for Crash; and More
Meadow Mill businesses remain rain weary, wary — Baltimore Sun Amtrak to pay $265M for Philadelphia crash that killed 8 — CBS Baltimore Officer Garrett Miller’s statements offer insight into Freddie Gray’s arrest — WBAL Ruth’s Chris Steak House on Water Street to close Friday after 24 years — BBJ Chris Davis, Manny Machado announced as […]
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Monday Afternoon Headlines: Former General Charged in Leak Case; Freddie Gray’s Knife; and More
Former general charged with false statements in leak probe — CBS Baltimore Baltimore black journalist group condemns Rawlings-Blake’s ban of WYPR reporter — Baltimore Sun I-Team obtains photo of Freddie Gray’s knife — WBAL Johns Hopkins engineering school receives $15M gift — BBJ Terrell Suggs believed to have torn bicep — NFL.com
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Mosby Talks Family and Freddie Gray Aftermath to NYT Mag
“I don’t think I’ll ever be who I was before,” Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says of the fallout of the Freddie Gray police trials. In an intimate, if not sympathetic profile with the headline “Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby” published by The New York Times Magazine, Mosby talks about her family life, her shakeup of the […]
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Corruption and Reform? The 5 Biggest Baltimore Policing Stories of 2017
The Baltimore Police Department entered 2017 with the U.S. Justice Department’s damning investigative report just barely in its rearview, and court-ordered reform hovering overhead. The department now leaves the year behind with more scandal and documented corruption in tow, and the wary eyes of a public eager to see what those reforms will look like.
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In “Baltimore Rising,” Artists React to the Civil Unrest of April 2015
How is Baltimore doing since the riots in April 2015? What has changed? What still needs to change?
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Police Arrested Freddie Gray Protesters Last Year by Surveilling Social Media
Officers were able to single out and arrest protesters with outstanding warrants during the Freddie Gray riots with help from a social media monitoring tool, the ACLU has found. The group’s Northern California branch said in an investigative report published yesterday that the company Geofeedia helped police tap into protesters’ Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts last April. […]
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Public Asked to Chime in on Police Consent Decree Monitor Applications
The applications are in for the position of independent consent decree monitor, which will oversee wide-reaching, court-ordered police reform in the city. Now, officials need the public’s help in combing through the pile.
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Greenlaurel: Teach For America Alums Sprout a Garden at Fredrick Douglass High
At Frederick Douglass High School in West Baltimore sits a tidy outdoor garden that offers a prime example of what Baltimore students can do with the right tools to harness the power of urban agriculture. Were it not for three dedicated Teach for America alums, it might be just another patch of asphalt.
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Stephen Towns’ Newest Exhibition Chronicles Nat Turner’s Rebellion for a City Scarred by Uprisings
Artist Stephen Towns vividly remembers the days after Freddie Gray died. He watched as Baltimore residents, many of them young black men, set fire to buildings, looted and tore apart areas of the city.
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From Freedom House to Freddie Gray, Maryland Well-Represented in New African American Museum
Although the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture opened Saturday in the heart of Washington, the state of Maryland from which D.C. was carved has a strong presence.
