Virtual Readings For Baltimore's Freddie Gray [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 4/29/1512:00 PM

Editor's note: This post contains some language that many will find offensive.

Lots of people are looking for words to make sense of Freddie Gray's death and the subsequent unrest in Baltimore, and have turned to writers — from novelist and social critic James Baldwin to hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar — for an assist. They're sharing these writers' words on social media, as screenshots in tweets, Instragrammed pictures of open books, and Photoshopped collages uploaded to Facebook.

Here are some of the virtual readings that stuck out to us — with context.

[For more of this story, written by Kat Chow, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/codes...ngs-for-freddie-gray]

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