Editors’ Choice

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.

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.

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.

Listen up, white people: we’ve got some serious work to do.

Michael Brown’s family and community deserve more than the slim chance of his killer going to jail. Another Midwestern town, torn by a police shooting, has the answer.

As the Brown grand jury hears evidence, are its white and black members even hearing the same thing? Many studies suggest: probably not.

This is the year in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Bill.