May 02 Watch 5:38 Staggering arrest rates strain Baltimore community relations with police By PBS News Hour All week long, many young people from the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and other inner city Baltimore communities have been protesting the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police. Natasha Pratt-Harris, an associate professor of criminal justice and sociology at… Continue watching
May 02 Watch 4:15 In Freddie Gray's neighborhood, a bleak outlook for family life By PBS News Hour In the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested, both the number of babies born to teenagers and the incarceration rate are exponentially higher than the national average. Tara Huffman, the director of the criminal… Continue watching
May 02 Watch 2:56 Is Baltimore better equipped to handle unrest should tensions rise again? By PBS News Hour The city of Baltimore, Maryland, headed into a weekend of rallies and demonstrations after the six officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray were released on bail. For the latest, Luke Broadwater of The Baltimore Sun joins… Continue watching
May 02 Life in Freddie Gray's childhood neighborhood by the numbers By Elisabeth Ponsot, Daniel Costa-Roberts On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12. Continue reading
May 02 Problems facing the poor inch into 2016 presidential race By Julie Pace, Associated Press In a presidential campaign where candidates are jockeying to be champions of the middle class and asking wealthy people for money, the problems facing the poor are inching into the debate. Continue reading
May 01 Watch 4:43 'There's always need': Baltimore unrest highlights struggles with hunger and crime By PBS News Hour One in five people in Baltimore live in a “food desert,” an area without grocery stores and fresh food, made worse by the recent riots that destroyed some of the convenience stores on which many rely. But that’s just one… Continue watching
May 01 Watch 7:29 Do Baltimore's charges against police signal a change? By PBS News Hour To learn more about the charges against six officers in the death of Freddie Gray, Judy Woodruff talks to David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and former Baltimore prosecutor Debbie Hines. Continue watching
May 01 Watch 6:19 Prosecutor urges calm after police charged in Freddie Gray's death By PBS News Hour Six Baltimore police officers were charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a broken neck after being arrested last month. The various charges of murder, manslaughter and assault are based on an independent investigation, which detailed the timeline… Continue watching
May 01 Watch 2:58 Obama: It's "absolutely vital" the truth comes out in Freddie Gray case By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 01 Gwen's Take: Ask me anything By Gwen Ifill I have turned this week’s Take over to you, gentle readers, in a new, irregularly recurring feature I believe I’ll call “Gwen’s Bingo.”… Continue reading