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we’d say, “You know what, look, it just happened to Baltimore.” They tried to do the same thing with scattered housing in eastern Baltimore County, and the white folks went batshit, batshit crazy. At every ... before Baltimore, before Charleston. Simon blamed the stalling of "desegregation" after the ...

Television writer-producer David Simon, a Baltimore denizen whose acclaimed HBO series The Wire and Treme pushed liberal approaches to urban policy, sat down along with former Newark mayor-now New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker for an interview about the racial state of U.S. cities. The interview, conducted ...

David Simon, the toast of Hollywood and the cultural elite for creating the inner-city Baltimore ... at a "Festival of Dangerous Ideas" in Sydney, Australia. He also shocked Baltimore Sun TV ... occupying this place called Baltimore and they were going to have to endure somehow. That's the great ...

Via The Wrap, we learned that on his blog “The Audacity of Despair,” former Baltimore Sun reporter and "The Wire" creator David Simon bluntly attacked the George Zimmerman verdict, suggesting it begs for racial rioting. He had that self-righteously arrogant tone of a former sportscaster who ...