Rappers are making their voices heard in song and on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting death, channeling hip-hop’s earlier roots when the genre worked as a voice for the oppressed and spoke out against injustice.
In “The Case for Reparations,” I tried to move the lens away from the enslaved and focus on their descendants.
About five years ago, I began a deep dive into the Civil War, most of it chronicled here.
Police departments around the Bay Area and the country are equipping officers with wearable cameras in an effort to capture video evidence that could head off the kind of dispute that exploded after an officer killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
Americans are used to this nation’s military being engaged in wars across the world; wars against nations and enemies “over there.”
On Friday afternoon, August 22nd around 5:20 p.m., while innocently walking by myself from a restaurant on Wilshire Blvd.
The Denver Police Department is looking to equip 800 officers with body cameras in 2015.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It was roughly two hours into the forum on Tuesday night, hosted in a college auditorium by local hip-hop station HOT 104.1, when Cary Ball Sr. decided he had heard enough.
Last Tuesday, two St. Louis police officers shot and killed 25-year-old Kajieme Powell just a few miles away from the ongoing protests sparked by the police killing of another young black man, Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri.
Ferguson’s fires run counter to the narrative about suburbia, the story Americans tell themselves about strip malls and rolling lawns, about McMansions and upward mobility.
Throughout the global African community, we gather together this month to celebrate the centennial of the founding of the Universal Negro Improvement Association…
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