Cop Group Supports Black Officer Charged in Freddie Gray Case
The Vanguard Justice Society voiced its support for Sgt. Alicia D. White, who was charged earlier this month with manslaughter and second degree assault, as well as misconduct in office, and faces 20 years...
Atty. General Loretta Lynch Announces “Wide Ranging” Investigation of Baltimore’s Police
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department waded anew Friday into fraught, big city police-community relations, with new Attorney General Loretta Lynch declaring the subject "one of the most challenging issues of our time." She...
Baltimore Mayor Seeks Help from Justice Department
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced May 6 she was calling for the U.S Department of Justice to launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Baltimore City Police Department’s policing habits.
“We have to get...
Thousands Expected in Baltimore Rallies, Now Celebratory
BALTIMORE (AP) A massive march planned for Saturday, May 2 to protest the death of a man in police custody is now being billed as a victory rally after Baltimore's top prosecutor filed criminal charges...
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore Prosecutor Charges 6 Baltimore Officers in Gray’s Death
(AP) Baltimore's top prosecutor announced criminal charges May 1 against all six officers suspended after a man suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody, saying "no one is above the law."
"Mr. Gray's death...
Baltimore Police Hand Report on Gray Death to Prosecutor
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police completed a criminal investigation into the death of Freddie Gray and delivered it to a prosecutor a day earlier than promised Thursday, but the commissioner said his department stands...
Black Lives Matter, Social Justice Now!
The Ujima Peoples Progress Party in collaboration with Coppin State University Urban Studies Program is hosting a statewide conference on May 2 to build Maryland’s first Black workers-led political party for social and economic...
The Young Come Out in Droves for Gray
Young people peppered the mass of supporters who flooded New Shiloh Baptist Church April 27 to help lay Freddie Gray, the African-American man who recently died in police custody, to rest.
Twenty-somethings, teenagers, and even...
Pastors Insist Gray’s Death Must Lead to Reform
With the nation’s eyes on Baltimore, local and national pastors presiding over the funeral of Freddie Gray insisted that Gray’s death not be in vain, but lead to substantial reforms.
The funeral was attended by...
COMMENTARY: The Freddie Gray Funeral
Just hours before Baltimore went upside down, the Rev. Lisa Weah prayed at Freddie Gray’s funeral “that Baltimore will be a model of how to move forward and to be better than what we’ve...
Names of Suspended Baltimore Police Officers Released
(Updated 4/22/2015) BALTIMORE (AP) — The six officers suspended in the investigation of a Black man who died after his arrest had worked on the police force anywhere from nearly two decades to three...
Friends Remember Freddie Carlos Gray, 25, “The Life of the Neighborhood”
(Updated 4/22/2015) “He was the life of the neighborhood,” said William Stewart outside the Baltimore Police headquarters at a protest over the in-custody death of his life-long friend Freddie Carlos Gray that was drawing...
