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Jessica Marie Johnson
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writer, historian of slavery. books: Wicked Flesh (Penn Press, 2020); Computational Humanities (UMinn, 2024). director at @lifexcode.bsky.social. Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
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Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore.

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Looking Back. Moving Forward: A Special West Wednesday.
It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death and the Uprising. It will be the 611th West Wednesday calling for justice for Tyrone West.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time.

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‘A particular responsibility’: What it was like to cover the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“Everybody was all in.” It’s a bit of a full circle moment to hear this statement come from my father 10 years after I witnessed him pulling up outside our house, looking dazed and half-asleep. I was ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page.

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Photostory: Images from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising
“I think the death of Freddie Gray inspired a whole new generation of activists,” photographer Devin Allen tells me on a phone call earlier this year.  At the time of Gray’s death, Allen was beginning...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising.

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From emergency response to sustained resistance: How Baltimore Action Legal Team endured after the Uprising
As day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the ...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another.

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A Mass Movement: A History of the Baltimore Uprising, From the Ground Up
On the morning of April 12, 2015, at about 8:48 a.m., a 25-year-old Black man named Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. allegedly made eye contact with a police officer at the corner of North and Mount, where he was walking with his friends Brandon Ross and Davonte Roary looking for breakfast from a carryout. Gray and […]
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April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter.

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Letter from the editor- Issue 59
Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class com...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM