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News Media Struggle to Present a Balanced Picture of Baltimore Unrest
Some Outlets Strive to Counterbalance Sensationalism The news media — particularly CNN and Fox News Channel — took their share of lumps Tuesday and Wednesday for sensationalizing coverage of the Baltimore uprising, but some outlets made an effort to explain the unrest’s decades-old underlying causes and resisted impulses to paint residents with a broad brush.…
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‘We Are Not Thugs’
A mass of young people, 4,000 strong, locked arms Wednesday and marched from Amtrak’s Penn Station in Baltimore down to City Hall to protest the death of Freddie Gray. As they marched, a student yelled over the loudspeaker, “When you don’t say something when it’s your neighbor, what will you do when they come for…
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Media Focus on Violent Protests in Baltimore, Not Vast Majority of Peaceful Protesters
Riots, Looting Follow Efforts to Show a Peaceful Face Critics denounced media organizations over the weekend for emphasizing violence over peaceful protests in their coverage of Baltimore reaction to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray after he was injured April 19 in police custody. But on Monday, riots and looting broke out on the city’s west side,…
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Baltimore: The Fire Next Time
The city of Baltimore is still reeling from the April 19 death of Freddie Gray a week after he was taken into police custody. Police officials have admitted that he asked for medical attention and never received it. Preliminary results from an autopsy revealed that Gray died from complications he suffered after his spine was…
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Peaceful Protests and Funeral for Freddie Gray Eclipsed by Violence
The funeral of Freddie Gray and the mass peaceful protests that followed his death were eclipsed Monday night by widespread uprisings and standoffs between young people and police in Baltimore. It started on Saturday in Camden Yards, where kids busted police windows, broke glass at a mall and had standoffs with Orioles fans, some of…
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Mom’s House or Flophouse? Where to Live After College
The thing I, as a shorty, looked forward to the most about transitioning from jailbait-hood to manhood was the right to move out of my parents’ house and “be grown” somewhere, anywhere, on my own. “Give [me] free!” my autonomy-hungry heart cried out as I signed the lease to my first apartment two days after…
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Yes, Social Media Can Cost You Your Job
It’s amazing how much trouble you can get into with just 140 characters. Just ask the Texas teen who goes by the Twitter handle @Cellla. Back in February, the teenager was supposed to start her new job at Jet’s Pizza in Mansfield, Texas, when she sent out a tweet the day before that read, “Ew,…
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Yes, He Said It: ‘Mayweather Is Better Than Ali’
The conversation started with an email from Associate Editor Stephen Crockett to his colleagues, and the responses that ensued led to an exchange about race and class in America: From: Stephen Crockett To: Lyne Pitts, Danielle Belton, Genetta Adams Is the hate for Floyd so strong that white folks are embracing a Filipino fighter over…
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Departing Attorney General Eric Holder Was Controversial—and a Black Political Superhero
There’s quite a bit of truth to the old folks’ maxim that if they’re not talking about you, it means you didn’t bring much to the table in the first place. Just ask Eric Holder. You could never be, arguably, the most impactful attorney general since Robert F. Kennedy if your name weren’t mentioned as…
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Is a University Founder Linked to My Enslaved Ancestor?
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to know more about my ancestors. All I know is that my great-grandfather Alex McMillan was born a slave in 1860 and came from Robeson County, N.C. While this is vague, it is precious to me to even know that tidbit of my family history.…