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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.…

More than 100 cities, including Baltimore, caught fire when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. That year saw the fourth straight “long, hot summer”—the fourth time black communities had erupted in major American cities, with police brutality and poverty as the front-and-center issues. With mainstream media recalling 1968’s rebellions in light of Monday’s…

Nigeria’s military tweeted Tuesday, announcing that it had rescued approximately 300 women and girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. Although the rescue occurred, it is not certain if the nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group last April were among those rescued, CNN reports. A military representative said that the rescued victims…

Baltimore is not a think piece. Not every action in a riot is a metaphor. Freddie Gray’s back is really broken and he is actually dead.  As the city variously rests and burns, lots of smart folks have glossed over these facts. Most of us have the luxury of not living in the city today,…

As people poured out of a Brooklyn, N.Y., funeral home after a service Monday evening, three gunmen drove by and fired shots into the crowd, killing two people and injuring six, the New York Daily News reports. The funeral service was held for 39-year-old Jose Luis Robles, who died of natural causes. The assailants began…

Baltimore gang members are telling local media outlets not to believe a word from police officials who said that gangs like the Bloods, the Crips and the Black Guerrilla Family have called a truce among one another so that they can unite to kill white police officers, Raw Story reported, via WBAL-TV.   Hundreds of…

Veronica Bolina—a 25-year-old transgender woman in Brazil who was arrested for allegedly attacking her 73-year-old neighbor—was beaten beyond recognition while in jail, the Daily Mail reports. In photos that have circulated online, Bolina’s eyes are swollen shut, her face is puffed out and deformed, and her lips are swollen. There are also several lacerations on her…

John Blue, of Georgia, says he wants justice after he spent seven months in jail on an assault charge of which he was eventually found not guilty, WSB-TV reports.   Blue was charged with aggravated assault last summer for allegedly ramming his van into a state welfare worker’s vehicle. Blue, his girlfriend and his sons,…

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…