Closures in Baltimore and Ohio have affected students and parents this week.
Good Morning Everybody, It’s voting season. And I don’t know if I can recall another time in my life where more was at stake, all over the country, than right now. You are going to hear me talking about voting almost every day over these next few months – in part because I don’t just […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The gunshot that killed a Baltimore detective one day before he was to testify in front of a grand jury investigating dirty cops was likely self-inflicted, leaders of an independent review board announced Wednesday. The panel’s unanimous decision is the latest twist in a real-life whodunit that has captivated Baltimore for 10 […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner was charged Thursday with three misdemeanor counts of failure to file taxes, the latest embarrassment to rock a beleaguered force reeling from scandal to scandal. The U.S. Attorney’s office alleged that Commissioner Darryl DeSousa “willfully failed to file a federal return for tax years 2013, 2014, and 2015, despite […]
Harriet Tubman‘s legacy remains an inspiration and her bravery in the face of oppression continues to resonate. Over the weekend, the city of Baltimore renamed a park site after the famed abolitionist, this after the removal of statues honoring figures who fought for the Confederacy. In August 2017, city officials removed four statues connected to […]
Baltimore plans to launch an initiative to reduce the Black male incarceration rate
A man sprayed by harmful, “military-grade tear gas,” during a protest over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore has received $75,000 by a jury. The New York Daily News reports that 26-year-old Larry Lomax was protesting during a Freddie Gray protest in May of 2015 when police officers sprayed him with harmful chemicals. The […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Following a record year in homicides, Baltimore’s mayor fired the city’s police commissioner, saying Friday that a change in leadership was needed to reduce crime more quickly. Deputy Commissioner Darryl DeSousa, a 30-year veteran of the force, will take Commissioner Kevin Davis’ place immediately, Mayor Catherine Pugh announced. “My decision is because […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The man who said he came to the aid of a woman discharged from a Baltimore hospital wearing only a gown and socks on a cold winter’s night, says he was left outraged and stunned at how she was treated. Imamu Baraka, identified in local reports as the person who sought to […]
This is not what we send our kids to school for.
Baltimore's public defender calls into question 2,000 cases impacted by police corruption.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Fellow police officers are testifying at a disciplinary hearing for a Baltimore police van driver. The hearing is expected to continue Wednesday for Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which 25-year-old Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury after being arrested in April 2015. The police department is seeking to fire […]
