Last week, a Baltimore judge found Officer Edward Nero not guilty of reckless endangerment, among other charges, in the death last year of Freddie Gray....

When neighborhood leaders convinced the big university hospital nearby to join them in a community improvement project, no one thought that would lead to…

Even before the entrepreneurs made a coffee a luxury item, the drink had a certain community-building quality.A cup-a-joe spot was a touch stone, a…

Since the death of Freddie Gray last April and the protests and unrest that followed Baltimore’s Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has talked about the…

Baltimore's homicide rate rose last year while fewer cases were reported solved. In 2015 the homicide rate rose more than 60% from the previous year. In…

Big shouldered, urban "anchor" institutions have been known to try to buy community peace by promising jobs to their neighbors—like leaf raking or…

This video is part of a special WYPR newsroom series entitled "On The Watch: Fixing the Fractured Relationship Between Baltimore's Police and Its…

On the streets, pushing for change Every Wednesday night for almost two and half years, Tawanda Jones and her family gather on the street with supporters…

Back in the day, pigs arrived in Charm City by train and hit the streets running on their way to the breakfast table.They were doomed, of course. But they…

On the some of the hottest days of this summer, 14-year-old LaAsia Griffin and her big brother Jamal popped a white canopy tent and set up penny candy,…