Category: Baltimore Recovery

BALTIMORE (AP) — Months before Freddie Gray died of the broken neck he suffered during what Baltimore’s top prosecutor called an illegal arrest, the city’s mayor and police commissioner said the department needed reform and asked the Justice Department for help reviewing officer misconduct. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks during a media availability at City Hall, […]

The Baltimore City NAACP plans to open a new satellite office next to Gilmor Homes, the housing project where Freddie Gray was raised, in order to better address the needs of one of the poorest communities in Baltimore City. Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford (R) (left), speaks with Baltimore City NAACP president Tessa Hill-Aston (center), […]

Journalists usually record history. George Collins made it. Gentlemen in front of the downtown AFRO building are, photographer I. Henry Phillips Sr., left, and reporters Rufus Wells (Dulah Okoro), Herbert Magrum (Orfa Adwuba) and George Collins (Loua Akulu). In the summer of 1961, Collins and other AFRO conceived and executed what came to be known […]