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Harden-Lindsey helps direct students after the school day ends.

How One West Baltimore Principal Helps Her Students Make Sense Of It All

5:31pm April 30, 2015

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

Crystal Harden-Lindsey is a principal at a public charter school for middle and high schoolers. "You just have to pray that they'll make it back to school the next day," she says of her students.

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A woman faces a line of Baltimore police officers in riot gear.

'Ain't no way you can sit here and be silent'

3:33pm April 30, 2015

by Kainaz Amaria

Peaceful demonstrations on Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray were overshadowed by violence in the streets of Baltimore.

Michel Martin's father was a New York City firefighter in 1968, when race riots erupted in neighborhoods across the city and country. His memorial card sits on his dented helmet from those years.

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Looting And Rioting? First Responders Remember 1968

3:24pm April 30, 2015

by Michel Martin

Some first responders are dealing with looting and burning in Baltimore for the first time. But Michel Martin asks whether there's a familiarity for those who were on duty during the riots in 1968.

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A woman in Baltimore holds a sign Tuesday night telling protesters to go home; a curfew and community intervention are being credited with helping ease tensions in the city.

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Baltimore Update: A Forceful Mom And A Fan-Free Baseball Game

2:15pm April 29, 2015

by Bill Chappell

In a first, the Orioles plan to play an MLB game without an audience, and a woman who yanked her son away from potential trouble is making headlines.

Virtual Readings For Baltimore's Freddie Gray

1:55pm April 29, 2015

by Kat Chow

Here are some words from novelists, poets and rappers that folks are sharing on social media to make sense of what's going on in Baltimore.

David Simon, creator of The Wire, is urging calm in Baltimore.

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'Go Home. Please': 'Wire' Creator David Simon Urges Calm In Baltimore

4:16pm April 28, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

In a blog post, Simon added that while there is much to be "argued, debated, addressed ... this moment ... can still, in the end, "prove transformational, if not redemptive for our city."

"Question Bridge: Black Males" attempts to represent black male identity in America via a video question-and-answer exchange. At top center is Jesse Williams, the project's executive producer.

Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

2:10pm April 28, 2015

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

Redefining the narrative of what it means to be black and male in the U.S. is at the heart of "Question Bridge: Black Males," an award-winning, multimedia art project.

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Each of the 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series is accompanied with a caption. For this panel, he wrote in 1941: "In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry."

Arts

Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence

9:18pm April 26, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

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Baltimore Protests Turn Violent

8:57pm April 26, 2015

by Matt Laslo

A week of peaceful protests in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, a young African-American man, turned violent Saturday. Police arrested twelve people for destroying property and other crimes.

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Police carry a detained man to a waiting police van after a march to City Hall for Freddie Gray, on Saturday. Authorities say 34 people were arrested in the protest over Gray, who died in police custody last week.

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Baltimore Police: 34 Arrested In Freddie Gray Protest

1:20pm April 26, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Even with the arrests, police said Saturday's protest over Gray — a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody after receiving a fatal spinal cord injury — was "mostly peaceful."