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Littwin: I lived in Baltimore for 12 years and, as my...

It is way too late to be shocked when Donald Trump — now apparently running for re-election as a full-throated racist — attacks a...

News Poem: ‘I have traveled much to go nowhere today’

Blood pressure reacts to such toxic swallowings

Wiretap: Kareem Abdul Jabbar warns: More Baltimores are coming

Three points Kareem Abdul Jabbar writes that Baltimore is not an anomaly and that the economic conditions in cities like Baltimore mean there are more Baltimores...

Littwin: Seeing and unseeing Freddie Gray’s Sandtown

THE QUESTION of what happened to Freddie Gray will, with luck, eventually be answered in court. And although it's a critically important question, it's...

Denver’s excessive force payouts twice as much as Baltimore’s

Baltimore has in the past four years paid out $5.7 million in police brutality settlements, The Baltimore Sun reported last fall. Since Freddie Gray’s death two...

Wiretap: Pastors, politicians, gang members uniting Baltimore

Holding hands Pastors, politicians, community leaders and even gang members take to the streets in Baltimore -- not to riot or even protest but to...

Wiretap: Brutal cops, racial tensions, income inequality sparked Baltimore uprising

Class acts Why Baltimore? Baltimore is not Ferguson, and the story of the riots following Freddie Gray's death at the hands of the police is...