Baltimore protests

An amateur photographer from Baltimore is being celebrated for his photos taken during the recent demonstrations in the name of Freddie Gray. His images are so touching, in fact, that the 26-year-old’s work is featured on the latest cover of TIME Magazine. Devin Allen’s photos were first spotted on Instagram and spread from celebrities’ profiles (like Rihanna) to international organizations. […]

Eighteen-year-old Allen Bullock became a defining image of the Baltimore uprisings when he was photographed smashing a police car with a traffic cone on Monday, reports The Guardian. His mother and stepfather urged him to surrender to police in an effort to teach him about taking responsibility for his actions during protests that turned violent Monday […]

A day after Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes shut down CNN host Erin Burnett who tried to justify the use of “thug” to describe teens who clashed with police in protest of the death of Freddie Gray, another host entered the fray on Wednesday. While checking in with Stokes about the root cause of sometimes […]

You’ve heard from Toya Graham, aka “Mom of the Year” from the Baltimore riots, and now her son is speaking out about his actions and why he’s thankful his mother dragged him away from the crowd. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Graham and her son Michael Singleton give their accounts of the viral moment. Singleton says […]

Amid questions of how Freddie Gray‘s spine was severed while he was in Baltimore police custody – questions that led to days of peaceful protests, as well as rioting – comes a report from the Washington Post of a leaked document that actually suggests Gray was trying to injure himself. Reports the Post: A prisoner sharing a police […]

  Wednesday evening protests inspired by those who marched for answers in the death of Freddie Gray spread from Baltimore to other cities. Some highlights: -In New York City (see the video above), protesters starting at Union Square in Manhattan marched throughout the city, at one point shutting down the West Side highway and Holland […]

In the days following the riots in Baltimore, presidential candidate Rand Paul decided to reveal what he thought was the reason behind the city’s looting and arson — absent fathers. Paul made his statements during an interview on Tuesday with conservative radio host Laura Ingram. Labeling the tense moments seen throughout the nation as “thuggery and thievery,” […]

Most of the 200-plus Baltimore protesters arrested during a period of unrest Monday are still in jail with no formal charges, BuzzFeed News reports. According to law enforcement, 235 individuals were arrested Monday after police and protesters clashed in West Baltimore. Thirty-four of those arrested were juveniles. From BuzzFeed: The court system and State Attorney’s […]

UPDATED Thursday, April 30, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET:  After going toe-to-toe with CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer earlier this week, activist Deray McKesson came on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show (broadcast by Radio One, also the parent company of NewsOne) to expound on the exchange. “We don’t call it a riot, I call this an uprising,” he […]

It’s no secret. The word “thug” in the media has long been a euphemism for Black people, often used by those who fail to consider the marginalization and disenfranchisement of Black communities in the face of unrest, as seen in Baltimore as of late. So when CNN host Erin Burnett tried to justify the use […]

Roland Martin, host of NewsOne Now shared his perspective of the situation in Baltimore in the wake of Monday night’s unrest and rioting following the funeral of Freddie Gray. “We should not be in a situation where we’re having to repair our city and clean up our city after we’ve had windows busted out, after we’ve had […]

Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is blaming Monday’s controversial comments about “thugs” destroying the city on her “anger interpreter.” Taking a page from a routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in which comedian Keegan-Michael Key acted as an “anger translator” for President Obama, Baltimore’s mayor explained her remarks about the violence that broke out after peaceful protests over the Freddie Gray […]