![]() Everyone at the party is invited to spit if they feel like it (“even just a bar!”) as a group of besotted beatmakers load up original instrumentals. ![]() Nearby, a handful of kids elementary school age are passing a microphone around after stumbling on Baltimore rap collective Llamadon’s Beet Trip freestyle event. Two marching bands bound through and get everybody all geeked up. As the case against the six officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray – a 25-year-old black man from Baltimore’s Sandtown neighborhood whose death last April led to a wave of protests and rioting – finally arrives in Maryland’s highest court, local writer Brandon Soderberg traces the legacy of another Sandtown resident, Baltimore club figurehead and queer icon Miss Tony, to consider how Mobtown’s storied tradition of civil unrest is twinned with the combustible spirit of a troubled neighborhood.Īt the ninth annual Boundary Block Party in West Baltimore – not far from where, on April 12 last year, Freddie Gray was chased, beat down and arrested by Baltimore Police, thrown into a police van and at some point suffered a severe spinal cord injury before dying in hospital a week later – burgers and hot dogs cost a dollar and face painting stalls share space with activist groups.
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