The funeral of Freddie Gray and the mass peaceful protests that followed his death were eclipsed Monday night by widespread uprisings and standoffs between young people and police in Baltimore. It started on Saturday in Camden Yards, where kids busted police windows, broke glass at a mall and had standoffs with Orioles fans, some of…

Is this how boxing ends—not with a whimper but a bang? The May 2 bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has been six years in the making. In that time, there’s been a flirtation with retirement and a brush with the law for Mayweather, and political office and album-making for Pacquiao, while their teams…

Does “caught on tape” mean a conviction? While cellphone video of Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Police Officer Michael Slager in North Charleston, S.C., is damning, the past has taught us that sometimes video isn’t enough. Yet without it, most cases turn into a dead man’s body versus an officer’s claim of justifiable…

(The Root) — “One looks down in secret and sees many things,” Dr. Valentin Narcisse, played by Jeffrey Wright, says during the second episode of HBO’s crime drama Boardwalk Empire. Talking to his soon-to-be rival Chalky White, another African-American gangster in 1920s Atlantic City, he adds: “You know what I saw? A servant trying to…

On Jan. 28, 1972, red-hot trumpeter Lee Morgan, finally drug-free after battling a debilitating heroin addiction, took to the stage of the groundbreaking PBS show Soul!, hosted by Washington, D.C., native Ellis B. Haizlip. Three weeks later, his common-law wife marched into an East Village club in New York City, called out Morgan’s name as…