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DeRay Mckesson in DeRay for Mayor3 days ago5 min read

Nineteen Days Until Election Day

On February 3rd, I announced my candidacy to be the next mayor of Baltimore. From the beginning, I…

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Rita RobertsonFeb 243 min read

Stop Snitching

“Snitches get stitches!”
“Snitches end up in ditches”

My entire life growing up in West Baltimore, MD those phrases were ingrained in me. It was a lifelong lesson best learned early. The understanding to me was as simple then as is it is now: You dont…

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Jared Franklin in Blispay incApr 14 min read

On Raising $12.75 Million in Baltimore to Help Businesses Everywhere

We’re Blispay, a fintech startup…

The Brookings InstitutionJul 13, 20155 min read

Los Angeles 1992 to Baltimore 2015: Washington’s changed response to urban crisis

AbsurdistsMay 10, 20151 min read

Talking about Baltimore in an American classroom

Interesting Points

by John

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It was VERY hard for almost any of the students to entertain the idea that political and social stances are not simply…

Mary Jane and Dan McCannMar 244 min read

Stranger on a Train — Good Friday 2010

On Good Friday in 2010, we had to pick up our car, the car that our daughter Annie’s dead or dying body had been pulled from in 2008, her body then stuffed behind a dumpster in Baltimore. The police had impounded the car as evidence for over a year. Then, when…

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Winton WoodsFeb 4

I Am Running for Mayor of Baltimore

DeRay Mckesson

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I was born in Baltimore in 1938. My greatgrandfather was a stonemason who cut the cornerstones for many of the great stone buildings that were built in the 19th century. From afar I have watched Baltimore descend into darkness and I hope before I pass I will see it arise again as a great city. I applaud your energy and vision and pray for your success.

☀️Rama☀️May 23, 20151 min read

Why no one scares about Baltimore

Memorial day for who?

Quite honestly, we’ve made a stage out of brutality. Young people like me will count our lives as being entertained with the theater of war a statistical majority of our lives, wars at home or abroad — and NBC…