When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an "illegal knife" in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated "roughly" as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw-it led to a week of protests by both young and old, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore* and Erica Green give a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world. Learn more.

This intergenerational Program, in Nillumbik (a local government area in Victoria, Australia), was a 5-week program that brought together 27 older adults with five younger helpers (between the ages of 18 and 24) to build social connection, share stories, and increase technology and employment skills. The program, which kicked off in April 2019, trained and employed young job seekers to spend meaningful time with older community members by teaching them how to use tech and helped them record their life stories and experiences. Learn more.