"I wouldn't call it West," she told ABC News, referring to which side of the city she had called home. "It's near Mondawmin Mall."
That mall, some five decades later in April 2015, would be ground zero for riots after the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died a week after he suffered a fatal spinal injury in the back of a police transport van.
It's Gray's story where Smith starts in her acclaimed stage play, "Notes from the Field," which is being adapted for TV. The one-woman-play, airing in an HBO special tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, stars Smith as 18 real-life people -- from politicians, to preachers and even educators.
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