Remembering the Baltimore uprising two years later
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on how Freddie Gray’s death and the 2015 Baltimore uprising affected Hopkins students, Baltimore activism and university initiatives.
- The paper reported that Gray’s death sparked protests, while students Matthew Brown and Corey Payne said the uprising shaped their activism and connection to Baltimore.
- The article says Brown and other BSU members later presented demands on Black faculty, cultural training and student support; it adds that the University then released a diversity roadmap and training program.
- The reporter writes that Payne said Hopkins had not made significant administrative change, while President Ronald J. Daniels pointed to HopkinsLocal, including the hiring of 304 workers from underprivileged Baltimore neighborhoods.
- According to the article, students and faculty members connected the uprising to racism, inequality, policing and Baltimore’s economic conditions.
- The paper reported that three officers were acquitted and charges were dropped against the other three; Brown and Payne were disappointed, while Oranye saw the prosecutions as progress.