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Baltimore Police officers in riot gear on April 27. Drew Angerer / Getty Images As Edward Ransford, a sociologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, listened to reports from his car radio of the rioting in Baltimore this week, he was transported back to the summer of 1965. Then a young graduate…
Updated on April 30, 2015 As protests formed in a handful of major American cities on Wednesday night, a leaked police document offered a new and controversial theory as to what might have happened to Freddie Gray, the black Baltimore man who died in police custody last week. What the Document Says The document, obtained…
A 29 Photos From the Baltimore Protests That Shut Down New York City.
BALTIMORE—An unpredictable, ad hoc collaboration between gang members and police officers tamped down civil unrest in the place where protesters had gathered to mourn the late Freddie Gray. By midnight, two hours after the start of a controversial curfew, a city that had seen days of brawls, looting and possible arson was so quiet that…
Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University, carries a mattress on campus Sept. 5, 2014, in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Last fall, Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a mattress around campus — a protest, she said, of how the school handled her sexual assault complaint against a fellow student….
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…
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…
Photo Loretta E. Lynch testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination as attorney general in January. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — After one of the nation’s most protracted cabinet-level confirmation delays, the Senate Thursday approved Loretta E. Lynch to be attorney general. She is the first African-American…
Julie Zeveloff/Business InsiderNew York’s hottest, most exclusive neighborhood is Rikers Island. The most expensive neighborhood in New York City isn’t TriBeCa or the West Village. It’s Rikers Island. The city spent an average of $167,000 per inmate on its jail system in 2012, according to a new report from the city’s Independent Budget Office. That’s nearly…