LibGuides: Understanding Civic Unrest in Baltimore: From the '68 Riots to the Uprising of 2015 and Present Day: Articles

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Article Topics

The list of articles below are not exhaustive. The articles are categorized by topic and they include:

On Unrest: History and Opinions
The Baltimore Uprising 1 Year Anniversary
Unrest of 2015
Court Trials
The Media's Coverage of the Civic Unrest of 2015
Baltimore '68 Riots
Police Brutality
Unrest of 2015 and Art
Social Issues in Baltimore and Beyond
Response to Ferguson

On Unrest: History and Opinions

Zócalo Public Square. (2015, July 9). When Rioting Is the Answer. TIME.
The Editorial Board. (2014, Nov 25). The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots [Opinion]. The New York Times.
Goldberg, M. (2020, May 29). America Is a Tinderbox [Opinion]. The New York Times.
Douthat, R. (2020, May 30). The Case Against Riots [Opinion]. The New York Times.

The Baltimore Uprising 1 Year Anniversary

Donnella, L. (2016, April 20). Reflecting On The Death of Freddie Gray, One Year Later. Code Switch, National Public Radio.
Woods, Baynard. (2016, April 17). A year after Freddie Gray, families of others killed by police still seek justice. The Guardian.
Eligon, J. and Stolberg, S.G. (2016, April 12). Baltimore After Freddie Gray: The 'Mind-Set Has Changed.' The New York Times.
Prudente, Tim. (2016, April 27). Events planned Wednesday to recognize anniversary of Baltimore unrest. The Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore Uprising of 2015

George, J., Rector, K., Campbell, C. (2015, April 20). Heated protest in Baltimore over death of man in police custody. The Baltimore Sun.
Sherman, N., Kaltenbach, C., Pearce, M. (2015, April 20). Baltimore Police under scrutiny after death of 'black man running'. The Baltimore Sun.
Gay Stolberg, S., Nixon, R. (2015, April 21). Freddie Gray in Baltimore: Another City, Another Death in the Public Eye. The New York Times.
Tribune wire reports. (2015, April 23). Rough ride? Lawyer says Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, had no seat belt in van. The Baltimore Sun.
Coates, T. (2015, April 27). Nonviolence as Compliance. The Atlantic.
Dance, S. (2015, April 27). National Guard called in as riots rage across Baltimore; 15 officers hurt. The Baltimore Sun.
Feagin, J.R. (2015, April 27). Baltimore Uprising in Context. RacismReview.
Kane, C. (2015, April 27). White Sox-Orioles game postponed due to Baltimore Riots. The Baltimore Sun.
Bierman, N., Tanfani, J. (2015, April 28). In Baltimore, riots appear where urban renewal didn't. The Baltimore Sun.
Ericson, E. (2015, April 28). Grieving for a Nation: Reflection, hope, and dismay at the funeral of Freddie Gray. Baltimore City Paper.
Hennigan, W.J., Duara, N. (2015, April 28). CVS pharmacy emerges as symbolic flashpoint of Baltimore riot. The Baltimore Sun.
Hermann, P., Cox Woodrow, J. (2015, April 28). A Freddie Gray primer: Who was he, how did he die, and why is there so much anger? The Washington Post.
Serpick, E., Woods, B., Soderberg, B. (2015, April 28). The Fight for Freddie Gray: Dispatches from last week's protests. Baltimore City Paper.
Rothstein, R. (2015, April 29). From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation. Economic Policy Institute.
Mueller, B., Surico, J. (2015, April 30). Over 140 Arrested as New Yorkers Protest the Death of Freddie Gray. The New York Times.
Baltimore Sun. (2015, Oct. 23). Timeline. From simmer to burn: Baltimore reacts to the death of Freddie Gray. The Baltimore Sun.
Marbella, J. (2015, Oct. 23). The day the Baltimore riots erupted: New details of Baltimore riots after Freddie Gray's death. The Baltimore Sun.
Soderberg, B. (2015, Nov 25). The Baltimore Uprising began one year ago today, and it continues on. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

Baltimore Uprising of 2015 - Court Trials

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1. General Articles

Rector, K. (2015, Sept 2). Judge denies motions to dismiss charges, recuse Mosby in Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Sun.
Rentz, C. (2015, Nov 13). Baltimore's surveillance camera may hold clues to Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Sun.
Fenton, J. (2015, Nov 28). Freddie Gray judge prosecuted police misconduct for Justice Department. The Baltimore Sun.
Fenton, J. (2016, April 20). Freddie Gray case: Judge grants motion to force second officer to testify in two upcoming trials. The Baltimore Sun.

2. Trial of Officer Porter

Rector, K. (2015, Sept 2). Judge denies motions to dismiss charges, recuse Mosby in Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Sun.
Rentz, C. (2015, Nov 13). Baltimore's surveillance camera may hold clues to Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Sun.
Fenton, J. (2015, Nov 28). Freddie Gray judge prosecuted police misconduct for Justice Department. The Baltimore Sun.
Cassie, R. (2015, Nov 29). First Freddie Gray Trial Starts Monday: What You Need to Know. Baltimore Magazine.
Stolberg, S.G. (2015, Nov 29). First Trial in Freddie Gray Death Is Set to Start in Baltimore. The New York Times.
Duncan, I. (2015, Nov 30). Freddie Gray case legal analysis: jury selection could get complicated. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
Ericson, E. (2015, Nov 30). Jury selection begins in first Freddie Gray case. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
Fenton, J., & Rector, K. (2015, Nov 30). All potential jurors called Monday morning indicate they are familiar with Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
Weigel, B. (2015, Nov 30). Sheriff's Office permitted to move protestors away from courthouse during Freddie Gray trials. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
Woods, B. (2015, Nov 30). Trials of officers in Freddie Gray case begin amid skepticism over process. The Guardian.
Rector, K., Dunan, I., & Rentz, C. (2015, Dec 1). Potential jurors in Officer Porter's trial screened for connections to hundreds of people amid Freddie Gray investigation. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 2, 2015
Welsh, S. (2015, Dec 1). What are jurors being asked in Freddie Gray case? The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
Fenton, J. & Rector, K. (2015, Dec 2). Defense says Porter was a good cop with no record of misconduct. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
Fenton, J. & Rector, K. (2015, Dec 2). Prosecutors, defense attorneys make their case in trial of first office charged in Freddie Gray death. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
Stolberg, S.G. & Bidgood, J. (2015, Dec 2). Starkly Different Accounts of Freddie Gray's Death as Trial of Officer Begins. The New York Times. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
Yoes, S. (2015, Dec 2). The Trial of Officer Porter: The Canary in the Coalmine. The Afro-American Newspapers. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Bidgood, J. & Stolberg, S.G. (2015, Dec 3). Officer's Lawyers Try to Shift Blame in Freddie Gray's Death. The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Bui, L. & Jouvenal, J. & Weiner, R. (2015, Dec 3). Freddie Gray's mother sobs in court after seeing footage of son's arrest. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Linderman, J. & Dishneau, D. (2015, Dec 3). 2 Distinct Images of Baltimore Officer on Trial in Freddie Gray Case. The Afro-American Newspapers. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Rector, K. & Duncan, I. (2015, Dec 3). Freddie Gray's mother sobs, friend takes stand in officer's trial. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Rector, K. (2015, Dec 4). Freddie Gray case: Testimony to continue Friday in first trial of Baltimore officer. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
Fenton, J. (2015, Dec 7). Porter prosecutors committed discovery violation in Freddie Gray case trial, judge says. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
Rector, K. & Fenton, J. (2015, Dec 7). Prior back injury alleged as officer's trial in Freddie Gray case moves forward. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
Soderberg, B. (2015, Dec 8). Baltimore protestors march through the Inner Harbor the first day of police trial in the death of Freddie Gray. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
Fenton, J. & Rector, K. (2015, Dec 9). Defense to begin case for officer accused in Freddie Gray's death. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
Rector, K. & Fenton, J. (2015, Dec 9, 2015). Porter takes the stand in trial in Freddie Gray's death. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
Bui, L. & Jouvenal, J. & Weiner, R. (2015, Dec 9). Freddie Gray 'would usually act out...and feign an injury,' officer testifies. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
Fenton, J. & Rector, K. (2015, Dec 14). Closing arguments completed in Porter trial, jury in deliberations. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
Carlo, J. (2015, Dec 14). Jury begins deliberations in Porter trial after hearing contrasting styles of closing arguments. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
Yoes, S. (2015, Dec 16). Fear and Loathing in Baltimore. The Afro-American Newspapers. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
Broadwater, L. & Duncan, I. (2015, Dec 16). After hung jury in Officer Porter trial, now what? The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
Ross, J. (2015, Dec 17). Why no one should be truly shocked by the mistrial in the Freddy Gray case. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 17, 2015.

Baltimore Uprising of 2015 - On the Media's Coverage

Cave, D. (2015, April 28). Defining Baltimore: #Riot, #Uprising or #Disturbance? From Baltimore: A Day of Marches and Speeches (live coverage). The New York Times.
Eichensehr, M., Popper, D. (2015, April 28). How the Media Covered the Baltimore Riots. American Journalism Review.
Peters, J. (2015, April 28). "Where Are the Police?" Slate.
Attiah, K. (2015, April 30). How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere. The Washington Post.
Russell, A. (2015, May 1). The Media Needs a History Lesson When Addressing Civic Unrest, Says the Director of the African American History Museum. Smithsonian Magazine.

Baltimore '68 Riots

Recalling baltimore's 1968 riots. (1998, Apr 03). The Sun Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/406380749?accountid=28043
Dechter, G. (2007, Apr 04). ECHOES OF 1968 ; BALTIMORE'S RIOTS REMEMBERED; IN A FIRST, UB STUDENTS DOCUMENT THE DEADLY CONVULSION 39 YEARS AGO. The Sun Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/406156105?accountid=28043
Yockel, M. (2007, May). 100 Years: The Riots of 1968. Baltimore Magazine.
Kelly, J. (2011, Mar 26). NEW BOOK LOOKS CLOSELY AT THE RIOTS OF APRIL 1968. The Baltimore Sun Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/858718365?accountid=28043
Neyfakh, L. (2015, April 27). The Riots of '68. Slate.

Police Brutality

Friedersdorf, Conor. (2015, April 22). The Brutality of Police Culture in Baltimore. The Atlantic.
Watkins, D. (2015, April 23). Cops are the terrorists in our neighborhood: On Freddie Gray, another victim of police brutality. Salon.
Puente, M. (2014, Sept 28). Sun Investigates: Undue Force. The Baltimore Sun.
Puente, M. (2014, Oct 4). Sun Investigates: Some Baltimore police officers face repeated misconduct lawsuits. The Baltimore Sun.
Wiggins, O. (2015, Dec 7). Policing panel to seek major changes in investigating alleged misconduct. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 8, 2015.

Unrest of 2015 and Art

Case, W. (2015, May 1). Coloring Books and rap: Baltimore's arts communities respond to Freddie Gray unrest in range of ways. The Baltimore Sun.
Butcher, D. (2015, May 29). Nate Larson: Going Viral. BmoreArt.* **
Stoddard, C. (2015, July 8). The Stunning Baltimore Art Initiatives Trying To Mend A Shattered City. Bustle.
Stavsky, L. (2015, Aug 16). Baltimore-Based Artist/Activist Nether on Breaking Down Barriers, Honoring Freddy Gray, Forging Street Art for Social Justice and more. Street Art NYC.
Hardy, E. (2015, Aug 22). Devin Allen, the Brilliant Photographer Who Captured Baltimore's Uprising, Talks Art and Politics. Crave.
Wood, P. (2015, Dec 9). Towson activists, photographer Devin Allen honored in TIME magazine 'Person of the Year' issue. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
Civin, M. (2015, Dec 16). On the Ground: Baltimore. Artforum. Retrieved December 16, 2015.

*See also: Photo and Video Essays.

Social Issues in Baltimore and Beyond

Kinder, M. (2008). Re-Wiring Baltimore: The Emotive Power of Systemics, Seriality, and the City. Film Quarterly 62(2): 50-57.
Williams, J.S. (2008). The Lost Boys of Baltimore: Beauty and Desire in the Hood. Film Quarterly 62(2): 58-63.
Tando, D.S., Solomon, B.S. (2009). Risk and Protective Factors for Depressive Symptoms in Urban African American Adolescents. Youth & Society 41(1): 80-99.
Chare, N. (2011). Policing Technology: Listening to Cop Culture in The Wire. Journal for Cultural Research 15(1): 15-33.
Keneally, J.M. (2011). Jury Nullification, Race, and The Wire. New York Law School Law Review 55(4): 941-59.
Buttress, A., German, D., Holtgrave, D. (2013). The Wire and Urban Health in Education. Journal of Urban Health 90(3): 359-68.
Clampet-Lundquist, S. (2013). Baltimore Teens and Work: Gendered Opportunities in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods. Journal of Adolescent Research 28(1): 122-49.
Kim, Y. (2013). 'Rogue Cops': Politics of Equality in The Wire. Journal of American Studies 47(1): 189-211.
Badger, E. (2015, April 29). The long, painful and repetitive history of how Baltimore became Baltimore. The Washington Post.
Coates, T. (2014, June). The Case for Reparations. The Atlantic.
Lanahan, L. (2015, Nov). Who Can Save Sandtown?. Urbanite, No. 100. Retrieved from http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/100/who-can-save-sandtown/#sthash.S5EzOGmM.dpbs
Kulze, E. (2014, Dec 1). Baltimore Youths Have It Worse Than Those in Nigeria. vocativ.
Cassie, R. (2015, Dec 8). Bernie Sanders Visits Freddie Gray's Sandtown Neighborhood. Baltimore Magazine. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
Houppert, K. (2015, Dec 8). Anna Deavere Smith channels Baltimore on the school-to-prison pipeline. Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
Duggan, P. (2015, Dec 8). Seven months after Freddie Gray's death, 'ain't nothing changed out here.' The Washington Post. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
Fritze, J. (2015, Dec 8). Bernie Sanders likens West Baltimore to 'Third World' country. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
Ross, J. (2015, Dec 19). Why you should know what happened in Freddie Gray's life -- long before his death. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 21, 2015.

Response to Ferguson

Cooper, B. (2014, Aug 12). In defense of black rage: Michael Brown, police and the American dream. Salon.
Younge, G. (2014, Aug 18). In Ferguson the violence of the state created the violence of the street. The Guardian.
Burton, O. (2014, Dec 5). Resisting State Violence. CounterPunch.
Gould-Wartofsky, M. (2015, Jan 2). When Rioting is Rational. Jacobin.