Freddie Gray

  Roland Martin talks to Pastor Heber Brown of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in North Baltimore about the grassroots efforts in wake of the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. “It is organize pressure that has pushed us along. We’re gong to continue to put pressure on the Mayor and address the issues that go […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mourners filed for hours Sunday past the coffin of the man who died after sustaining serious injuries in the custody of Baltimore police, somberly paying respects after a night of violent protests. All afternoon, a steady stream of people entered the funeral home for a wake for Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black […]

After hours of peaceful protesting in Baltimore Saturday, where hundreds of people marched through the streets to contest the death of Freddie Gray, a small…

People all over the country are confused and frustrated over Freddie Gray’s death, and we have a few lingering questions about the situation. At this…

In the midst of protests and backlash against the Baltimore Police Department after the death of Freddie Gray, another witness video has emerged. The new video shows…

T.I. believes that he’s pinpointed the source of rampant police brutality against people of color. When the rapper spoke on CNN, he told Don Lemon…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Funeral plans are set for Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who died a week after he was critically injured in police custody. A wake will be held Sunday. The funeral is set for 11 a.m. Monday at New Shiloh Baptist Church. The Rev. Harold Carter Jr. will preside at the service and […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — No video captured what happened to Freddie Gray inside the police van where officers heaved him into a metal compartment after pinning him to a sidewalk. The cause of his fatal spine injury has not been revealed. But a troubling detail emerged as hundreds of protesters converged on City Hall again Thursday: […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Slight and slender at just 5-feet 8-inches and 145 pounds, 25-year-old Freddie Gray was a warm, funny, generous figure in Baltimore’s predominantly poor and African American Sandtown community, his friends and relatives said. The young man who died of traumatic spinal injury a week after his April 12 arrest used to give […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a fatal spinal-cord injury under mysterious circumstances after he was handcuffed and put in the back of a police van. After the probe was announced, at least 1,000 people […]

Why did Freddie Gray die from a severed spine while in police custody? His family desperately wants an answer. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she wants an answer, too. And, as a journalist who writes far too often about Black men being killed disproportionately by police, I’d also like to know what happened to Gray. In […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top police officials, mayor and prosecutor sought to calm a “community on edge” Monday while investigating how a man suffered a fatal spine injury while under arrest. Six officers have been suspended, but investigators say they still don’t know how it happened. A week after Freddie Gray was pulled off the […]