Civil Rights groups push Ferguson residents to the polls
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As a journalist, I’ve read roughly 1,000 autopsy reports and spent much of my career reporting on fatal encounters between police officers and civilians. Here’s some of what Baden found and what experts will be looking for as they examine Brown’s corpse
After he completes his campaign for more diversity in Silicon Valley, Jesse Jackson plans to expand the pressure on technology companies in other regions of the country and then go after other sectors of private industry, including financial services, banking and advertising.
Black voters in the south face new threats
‘Revolutionary’ whites tried to incite unarmed crowd in Ferguson
On Tuesday, two officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed Kajieme Powell, who was 25 years old. Powell was suspected of shoplifting…
Failed federal policy and the Black-White housing gap
The speech that made President Barack Obama famous cast him as a post-racial figure offering a vision of America no longer divided along Black-and-white lines.
These fence line measurements will give surrounding communities – largely low-income communities of color – data on the level of pollution they are exposed to each day.
Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson called on President Barack Obama to use his influence and get more involved in the current situation occurring in Ferguson.