Two weeks after Johns Hopkins University administrators announced what they called a two-year “pause” on a controversial plan to establish their own private police force, about 100 students, faculty and community members marched to the home of Hopkins President Ronald Daniels to tell him that this proposed pause is not enough. Wearing masks and trying […]

Photos by Larry Cohen

There is fire in the streets. This time, it began with Minneapolis. Long ago, it was Detroit, it was Los Angeles, it was Birmingham. The fire has always been here. Time after time it sparks and rages. Right now, I feel it in my throat. Yesterday, it was in my gut. Five years ago, after […]

Photos by Larry Cohen

The movement to defund the police has grown in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25. The idea of defunding police is rooted in the decades-old prison abolitionist movement and amid increasing protests, and increasing police violence against protesters, it has become a topic of national conversation. […]

Yesterday, on the fifth anniversary of Baltimore Police shooting Keith Davis Jr., his wife Kelly Davis and more than 50 others adorned their cars with “Free Keith Davis Jr.” signs and caravanned across Baltimore. They honked, hollered, and chanted in front of homes of the prosecutors and judges responsible for taking Davis Jr. to trial […]

On Saturday, Tawanda Jones, whose brother Tyrone West was killed by Baltimore Police and Morgan State University cops in July of 2013, was out protesting the death of George Floyd with a thousand or so others who traversed much of the city and ended up in front of City Hall. She put a speaker on […]

This piece was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Over Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore, eight people were shot and killed—a shocking amount of bloodshed even for a city that has eclipsed 300 homicides each year since 2015.  Baltimore City Police Department Commissioner Michael Harrison—the tenth to hold […]