“The homeowners were left with slum streets and declining property values.” That had consequences for the Black residents whose houses were in the way of the planned highway.

An East Baltimore family stranded in a crumbling slum house in the middle of a demolished block of abandoned properties was evacuated yesterday by the city housing department — clearing the w… ...

As The Baltimore Sun wrote at the time, once the neighborhoods in the planned highway’s path were targeted for demolition, there was little incentive or even permission to maintain or improve them.

Now, Baltimore is a city of 620,000, and the large majority—63.7 percent—are black.And unlike Ferguson, where demographic strength lagged political representation, Baltimore’s black ...

August 8, 2019; Who Broke Baltimore? We Did. Who Broke Baltimore? We Did. Baltimore’s decline isn’t an accident. It took decades of government intervention and hundreds of millions of dollars.

The unexplained death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, after his arrest on April 12 has spawned two days of intense riots in Baltimore following his funeral on April 27.

On the streets, some said violence is the only way to get authorities to pay attention to the plight of blacks in Baltimore. Others said they understood the anger, but not the violence.

Fox News contributor and Fox Nation host Lawrence Jones said Tuesday that Baltimore’s liberal policies have negatively affected the city, speaking to some of the residents there about the ...