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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Thursday Morning Headlines: Food at the Visionary Museum; Diaper Deliveries for Mothers in Need; and More
Fifty years after The Coleman Report: School integration and achievement gaps in Baltimore – WYPR Rallying the black vote in Freddie Gray’s Baltimore – Al Jazeera New exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum emphasizes food and all its peculiarities – Baltimore City Paper Baltimore org. delivering diapers and supplies to mothers in need – […]
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After Racist Incident Targeting Adam Jones, Orioles’ John Angelos Condemns Nation’s Intolerant Atmosphere in Letter
Orioles COO John Angelos isn’t known for being shy about his opinions, particularly when the discussion involves Freddie Gray or Donald Trump. Yesterday, responding to a nasty incident involving racist fans targeting Adam Jones in Boston on Monday night, he ran a letter on the website for the progressive magazine The Nation condemning the “sickness” of […]
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Camden Pub Closes, While Crossbar Opens Near Oriole Park
With Opening Day of the MLB season less than a week away, Orioles fans have one less bar to visit on Pratt Street, but one new megabar to patronize in South Baltimore.
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WJZ Anchorwoman Denise Koch to Stop Anchoring Late Night Newscast
After almost three decades, one of Baltimore’s top TV news anchors is moving dayside.
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Friday Afternoon Headlines: Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Mosby to Proceed; Teacher Accused of Having Sex with Student; Another Christmas Puppy Stolen; and More
Freddie Gray case: Judge allows malicious prosecution lawsuit against Mosby to proceed — Baltimore Sun ‘We just want our puppy back’: Family’s plea for return of stolen dog — CBS Baltimore Warrant issued for teacher accused of having sex with student — WBAL Leffler Agency ceases operations after 33 years — BBJ Mariners acquire Gallardo […]
