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In the days immediately before Loretta Lynch’s confirmation as Attorney General, one of her advisors noted that she felt that law enforcement is good for minority communities. He went further and said that she feels strongly that police and minority communities have much more in common than differences. This is probably an accurate read on Lynch’s feeling about police-minority community ...

I remember the day she beat him with a broomstick. My oldest brother Donnie had been caught hanging out on the corner with the “wrong crowd,” puffing on the filtered butt of a Kool cigarette. He was 14, some nine years older than me, and already stood much taller than our mother. She couldn’t have been more than five feet ...

A leaked police document that claims Freddie Gray was “intentionally trying to injure himself” while in the back of a police van in Baltimore after his arrest is being questioned due to inconsistencies with earlier reports. Gray died a week after his videotaped April 12 arrest due to injuries sustained under uncertain circumstances while in police custody, sparking protests in ...

BALTIMORE — At the Mondawmin Mall in West Baltimore Wednesday afternoon, members of rival gangs banded together to make sure local high school students got home from schools safely. “We all met up today to make sure the incidents that happened in previous days don’t happen again,” a 21-year-old who asked to only be identified by his nickname, Trag, told ...

Pew Research is just discovering something: Black people are not all the same. This is a truth that the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) has been living for the nearly decade of its existence. And it is a truth that Black people have known for generations. Several news outlets, including the NYT and USA Today covered a new report ...

Hoping to mend the tattered relationship between the police department and Chicago’s minority communities, the city’s top cop announced plans Tuesday for a “neighborhood outreach” tour. The police department will hold a series of meetings across the city to hear from residents, ministers and community leaders, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said in a statement. The dates and locations of ...

BALTIMORE — Luke Andrzejewski didn’t wait for the Mondawmin Mall to close Monday before he told the 10 workers he manages at the Burger King here to close down the restaurant. He’d heard from several customers that kids from nearby high schools had been using social media to plan a riot at the mall for 3 p.m. The funeral for ...

Rival Baltimore gang members came together Monday night to say that they never formed a truce to harm city police officers in revenge for the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who died last week after being injured in police custody. “We want the people of Baltimore City to know that the image they are trying to portray of gangs in ...

This week’s chaos on the streets of Baltimore has been decades in the making. Violence erupted in the city on Monday after days of largely peaceful protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who recently died of injuries he sustained while in police custody. But Gray’s death was just the latest point on a timeline stretching ...

At the end of a short interview with Fox News reporter Leland Vittert on the streets of West Baltimore Monday night, Nick Mosby, a member of the Baltimore City Council, decided he’d had enough. “At this point, this is not productive,” Mosby said, walking away from Vittert. “All you want to do is talk about…” He trailed off, and gestured ...