A little bit of everything
Ten years since the Freddie Gray riots, there’s a voice in my head that has never gone away. The voice is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as he gazed from a safe studio in Washington at the fire and the fury outside a pharmacy in West Baltimore.
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Homicides in the state rose to a ten-year high of 573 in 2020, a nearly 35% increase from 2010. The largest year-to-year increase occurred in 2015 when homicides rose to 553, a 52% increase from the previous year.
Read moreTop illustration by Tim Forkes Lately I’ve been binge watching the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. I’ve written about
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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is pushing back against a major police reform measure that would fundamentally change how law enforcement misconduct investigations are handled in Maryland.
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@BryanRenbaum Baltimore is showing the nation how to peacefully protest the police killing of George Floyd. Whereas protests over Floyd’s
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@BryanRenbaum Immediate access to capital is critical if Maryland’s black-owned businesses are to survive in the current economic environment, according
Read moreIn our time of enforced isolation, we’re as quiet here as any American city, and maybe more reflective. It’s the five-year anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the street violence that followed.
Read moreIn much of the free world, the name Johns Hopkins is almost sacrosanct. The Baltimore merchant/venture capitalist – a powerful
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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Monday threw out a lawsuit five Baltimore police officers filed against city State’s Attorney Marilyn
Read moreBaltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis talks with community leader Genard “Shadow” Barr in the new HBO documentary Baltimore Rising.
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