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https://i0.wp.com/baltimorebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GRAY_09.png?fit=2508%2C1402&ssl=125081402On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond to the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising five years later. All this week, the Beat is running the poems, essays, and reflections that came out of the write-in… When Freddie Gray was murdered in 2015, I learned […]