The law will make the city the first in the United States to protect its residents from the high costs that come with a privately-owned water utility.

“The Daily” tells the story of Lavar “Nook” Montray Douglas—and the family that mourns him—in five-parts.

The Morgan State University junior made a video for her digital journalism class about how media treats Baltimore homicide victims, including her uncle, as statistics. Then she died in a car crash. Here is her final project, “Pain After Murder in ‘Bodymore.’”  

“This is a bitter pill for all of us to swallow.”

The West Baltimore photographer’s new book, “A Beautiful Ghetto,” is both a visual love letter to his hometown and a chronicle of its 2015 unrest after police killed Freddie Gray. Here are five key shots and the stories behind them.

Takiyah Thompson was the first person charged with participation and incitement of a riot for helping to tear down a Confederate memorial in Durham.

Erricka Bridgeford could not totally stop shooting deaths for 72 hours in her hometown, but a new BBC article explores how she planted the seed.

Margot Lee Shetterly’s next book will focus on the Adamses and Murphys, two influential Black families in mid-20th century Baltimore.

The city’s public spending board approved the consent decree, which now requires a U.S. District Court judge’s confirmation.

Color Of Change’s Brandi Collins “It is clear the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are continuing their disturbing legacy of employing secretive surveillance tactics with murky legal parameters to chill The Movement for Black Lives.”

The ACLU says that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all provided user data to Geofeedia, a company whose social media montoring product was marketed to and used by law enforcement agencies to follow protestors.

A new article from The New York Times Magazine investigates the forces that Mosby says stopped her from successfully prosecuting the officers implicated in Freddie Gray’s death.

Glen Keith Allen said that he distanced himself from White supremacist organization National Alliance. The Southern Poverty Law Center just published records that show he donated to the group in 2003.

The complaint says the department disproportionately uses “stingray” technology, which allows police to track the location of cell phones.

“BPD … uses enforcement strategies that unlawfully subject African Americans to disproportionate rates of stops, searches and arrests.”

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights examined body-worn camera policies in 50 municipalities. It was not impressed.

How law enforcement uses mass arrests, high bail, conditional plea deals and serious felony charges to suppress local organizing.

It looks like no Baltimore officers will be held accountable for Gray’s death following his time in police custody.

Lt. Brian Rice’s trial is set to begin on June 7.

ACLU of Maryland attorney David Rocah says it still has “significant problems.”