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Black Guerilla Family, "Flags of Maryland", Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Beneatha's Place"

The Black Guerilla Family hit the headlines two weeks ago when Tavon White, other inmates and 13 corrections officers were indicted for criminal gang activity at the Baltimore jail. But, B.G.F.’s history reaches back five decades when Black Panther George Jackson started a revolutionary organization to protect prisoner rights. We learn what part of that political ideology is still visible here in Baltimore.



1-16-13: Decreasing gun violence, the history of the Maryland state flag, & waiting for weight loss

President Obama is set today to lay out his proposals to cut gun violence. At a conference at Johns Hopkins, experts have been sharing ideas for curbing gun violence.  We’ll get suggestions Stephen Teret, Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Hopkins.
Then, the latest installment in our series "Flags of Maryland." Today, why a Baltimore Presbyterian church decided to hang a gay pride flag, and a Dickeyville resident on the Missing in Action flag she flies in honor of her dad, who went missing before she was born.



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