A Republican member of the Maryland General Assembly thinks he may have a way to stop the rioting in Baltimore and quell what he deemed “Thug Nation”: Take away food stamps. Maryland state Del. Pat McDonough appeared on a conservative radio program and agreed with a caller who suggested that the way to end rioting…

For months there has been speculation that three places—New York, Chicago and Hawaii—were the front-runners to land the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum, and now there appears to be a clear winner. According to the Chicago Tribune, the president’s birthplace (Hawaii) and New York (where the president earned his undergraduate degree) were both close to…

Because of health concerns, doctors once suggested that Dellarontay Readus’ mother not carry her pregnancy to term. She wouldn’t hear of it. Instead she had the boy and raised him on her own. On Tuesday Readus, who was accepted at all eight Ivy League institutions, announced that he is heading to Stanford University. “I would…

A man who is currently in prison but shared the police van with Freddie Gray when the 25-year-old Baltimore man was arrested April 12, claims that Gray was “banging against the walls” of the van, trying to intentionally injure himself, according to a report in the Washington Post. Gray died a week after his arrest…

Toya Graham is a single mother raising six children, including a 16-year-old son, Michael, in Baltimore. She wasn’t looking to go viral when she walked outside and pulled her son out of protests Monday; she was looking to save his life. “He gave me eye contact. And at that point, you know, not even thinking…

On Tuesday evening around 10 p.m., the first day of a citywide curfew, only dozens of Baltimore protesters were in the streets, in stark contrast to the hundreds who demonstrated Monday night. Police fired tear gas canisters at some demonstrators who continued to defy orders to leave, and by midnight, 10 people had been arrested.…

Freddie Gray was laid to rest Monday morning, and Monday evening Baltimore was ablaze. According to the Baltimore Sun, some 27 protesters were arrested and more than a dozen police officers were injured in separate incidents. Police confirmed to the Sun that shots were fired at police around 10 p.m. “Too many people have spent…

Police were called to the Delaware home of a couple after an argument between the two turned violent. By the time authorities arrived, they found 37-year-old Adeyinka Adebamiro unconscious on the floor suffering from a stab wound to the upper body. Paramedics pronounced him dead shortly after their arrival. The victim’s wife, Temitope Adebamiro, has been…

If there is a high school student who hasn’t seen Selma, Paramount Home Media Distribution is hoping to change that. On Friday the movie company announced that every high school—public and private—in the U.S. will receive a free copy of the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, which is available in digital HD and is set…