I have heard that phrase uttered countless times since the tragic shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on a hot summer day this past August.
As we hold our breath waiting for the grand-jury decision on whether Officer Darren Wilson was justified in killing Michael Brown, an unarmed…
On March 22, 1991, a visibly shaken and angered President George H.W. Bush…
The shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri
Monday the public learned that a Missouri grand jury found that it did not have sufficient evidence to indict Michael Brown’s shooter, Police Officer Darren Wilson.
Tonight, St. Louis County District Attorney Robert McCulloch announced the decision of the grand jury in the killing of Michael Brown…
The National Collaborative for Health Equity joins many other racial justice organizations around the nation in decrying the failure of the Grand Jury
FERGUSON, Mo. — In the beginning, they came to the protests just like everyone else. Alexis Templeton and Johnetta Elzie put their college studies on the back burner so they could join the marchers…
So it begins. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency on Monday.
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights.
The problems in Ferguson, Missouri, will continue long after the grand jury’s decision is announced.
“Somehow, white youth engaged in bad behavior, including property destruction, manage to walk away alive or face arrest without the threat of physical abuse. Death by law enforcement is a penalty specifically reserved for Black youth and mostly levied against Black males.”