Our initial hope was to preserve materials that bolstered a range of narratives about the Baltimore Uprising, and especially to counter mainstream media coverage. Television and internet news consumers were led to believe the entire city of Baltimore was on fire, every store was being looted, and masses of city residents were committing violent acts against police on April 19 and in the days that followed. Those of us who live in Baltimore know that the entire city was not ablaze in April and May of 2015. We know that not every neighborhood had cars set on fire. Not every Rite Aid was looted. We know that City School students were put in an untenable situation, in which transportation was shut down, leaving them stranded and confronted by police in riot gear. And we know firsthand that rumors at the time were rampant. […] It was necessary to collect documentation of the uprising that could reveal the problems with reported versions of events.