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Feb. 3, 2013 (Patrick Smith/Getty) On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, the Baltimore Ravens won the NFL Super Bowl game against the San Francisco 49ers. Fans went wild and took to the streets of Baltimore in “celebrations” and “victory riots.” They were called “rowdy fans” who took “their celebrations too far” by local Baltimore CBS news….
Unrest in Baltimore, like any other dramatic event these days, created a surge of activity on social media. In the age of the selfie and ubiquitous cameras, many people have become compulsive chroniclers of all their activities — sometimes unwisely so. Reactions ranged from shock and disgust to disbelief and amusement when a series of images started…
TIME History Civil Rights What Martin Luther King Jr Really Thought About Riots New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr. marching in a Vietnam protest parade in New York City in 1967 Unrest in Baltimore has an old MLK quote back in the news As the city of Baltimore is…
Jon Stewart opened tonight’s Daily Show by tackling the violence last night in Baltimore, and said maybe people should care a little more about it and other cities before they’re “on fire” and the media suddenly notices. After some jokes at Wolf Blitzer‘s expense, Stewart tackled the slow response to the violence on Monday night…
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer brought activist and community organizer DeRay McKesson on the show Tuesday afternoon and appeared to have only one goal with the interview: To get McKesson to admit that the violent Baltimore riots were “wrong” and unprecedented. McKesson refused to condemn the protestors, even after Blitzer confidently cited “15 injured police officers, 200…
<br /> Jack Nicholson feels the same way we all do about Jared Leto’s as the Joker. Getting Jared Leto to play The Joker for the upcoming Suicide Squad movie was a weird choice, but we all kinda went along with it. After all, Heath Ledger seemed like an odd choice for the Joker in…
Hundreds of luxury apartments in the heart of Queens Plaza have just become available for rent. The World Wide Group–which has constructed a 421-unit, 21 story building at Queens Plaza North (24th Street)– has just listed the high-end apartments. Tenants will be able to move in as early as July. The apartments are packed with amenities—which…
CNN took a great deal of heat on Saturday evening for going all-out in its White House Correspondents’ Dinner coverage at the expense of ongoing protests in Baltimore. That general consensus of mockery continued Monday evening when Jon Stewart dedicated two full segments to lambasting the cable news network for its programming choices. “Once again,…
Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city’s publicly appointed guardians of order. And yet the mayor of that city and the commissioner…
Erin Burnett really tried, bless her heart, to imagine a reason why it might be inappropriate to refer to protesting black Baltimore teenagers as thugs. The CNN host was interviewing Baltimore city councilman Carl Stokes when she incredulously questioned Stokes whether Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlins-Blake’s categorization of the teens as criminals and thugs was “the…