baltimore
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2 Arrested at Baltimore City Council Hearing That Proposes Mandatory Minimum for Handgun Possession
All hell broke loose and two people were arrested at a Baltimore City Hall hearing for a proposed mandatory one-year sentence for possession of an illegal handgun—a bill that some say will continue to exacerbate the mass incarceration of young people of color. The Baltimore Police Department says that two unidentified men, a 29-year-old and…
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DeRay Mckesson Is Leaving His Position With Baltimore City Schools to Focus on Activism
Black Lives Matter activist and Campaign Zero co-founder DeRay Mckesson will leave his position as head of human resources for Baltimore City public schools at the end of this month to focus on his podcast and activism. Mckesson told the Baltimore Sun in an interview that after having served in his position as the school…
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Marilyn Mosby Treated Baltimore Cops the Way Cops Treat Everyone Else; Now They’re Coming for Her
Marilyn Mosby is under fire. On May 17, a coalition of law-enforcement officers, attorneys and community officials formed a super PAC dedicated to ousting Mosby from her position as Baltimore City state’s attorney, according to the Baltimore Sun. While the position is not typically the focus of a highly funded political race, the June 2018…
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Baltimore Day Care Worker Charged With Murder After ‘Disturbing’ Video of Abuse of an 8-Month-Old
Police say “disturbing” surveillance footage at a Baltimore day care center shows an 8-month-old girl being “tortured” to death by a staffer at the center. According to the Baltimore Sun, when little Reese Bowman was found unresponsive last Tuesday, a staffer told Baltimore police that she had fed the baby, wrapped her in a blanket…
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City of Baltimore Mulls Removing Confederate Statues by Auctioning Them Off
For those who think that Maryland is not the South, think again. Actually, Maryland’s Eastern Shore is where two of America’s most iconic anti-slavery heroes were born into slavery: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. And so, the capital city in the state south of the Mason-Dixon Line is joining many others in deciding the fate…
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Baltimore Police Department Brings Internal Charges Against 5 Officers in Freddie Gray Case
The Freddie Gray case lives on with the Baltimore Police Department’s decision to bring internal charges against five of the six officers involved in the case, with at least three of them also facing termination. According to the Baltimore Sun, Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., who was driving the police van in which Gray sustained fatal…
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Baltimore’s Mayor Asks FBI to Help Curb City’s Murder Rate
So far this year, there have been 100 homicides in Baltimore, and Mayor Catherine Pugh wants the FBI’s help. During her weekly address Wednesday, Pugh said that she wanted to get a handle on the murder rate before the summer begins. “Murder is out of control,” said Pugh. “There are too many guns on the…
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now. Henrietta Lacks is the woman whose cells, named HeLa, were able to…