Diversity Management, News and Updates
The first of the six long-awaited trials in the Freddie Gray case began in Baltimore on Wednesday morning, with opening statements made by both the prosecution and the defense by the afternoon. The jurors, selected from a pool of 150, are five Black women, three Black men, three white women…
The homicide rate in Baltimore has hit a record-high as of this past weekend. As of Tuesday the city has seen 305 homicides for the year, the Baltimore Sun reports. The city’s current per capita homicide rate is 48.97 per 100,000 residents. It has officially broken the 1993 record of…
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced she no longer plans to run for re-election. “It was a very difficult decision,” she stated on Friday morning, “but I knew I needed to spend my time, the remaining 15 months of my term, focused on the city’s future and not my own.” She…
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s office announced Tuesday that the city of Baltimore has reached a $6.4 million settlement with Freddie Gray’s family following his death in police custody on April 12. $2.8 million will be paid this year, and the remaining $3.6 million would be paid the following year. Gray, 25,…
