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Aug 31

How to write a poem about Ferguson

By Corinne Segal

How does a poet even begin to address what happened to Michael Brown? That’s the question at the center of “Working Title,” a piece by Mahogany Brown.

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Aug 20

Column: August is the month of our discontent

By DeRay McKesson

Mike Brown should be alive today. He should be home from his first year at college, visiting friends and enjoying summer as he prepares to return to campus.

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Aug 11

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Why school districts like Michael Brown’s have suffered ‘rapid resegregation’

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Since 1988, American schools have grown more segregated. Jeffrey Brown talks to New York Times Magazine writer Nikole Hannah-Jones -- who recently wrote about school segregation in Ferguson, Missouri -- and Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University Law Center.

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Aug 10

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How peaceful Ferguson anniversary protests turned violent

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Police critically wounded an 18-year-old black man overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, where mostly peaceful protests marked the anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown. Authorities say Tyrone Harris Jr. and others shot at officers, who in turn shot back, wounding…

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Aug 09

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One year after Michael Brown’s death, what has changed in Ferguson?

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Still healing one year after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, Ferguson Councilman Wesley Bell joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from St. Louis, to discuss the state of the city today.

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Aug 09

Ferguson commemorates one year since Michael Brown’s death

By Daniel Costa-Roberts

One year ago, the police shooting of black teen Michael Brown brought Ferguson, Missouri to international attention, prompted a national conversation about race and justice and electrified the Black Lives Matter movement. On Sunday, one year since Brown's death, the…

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Aug 09

‘There still is a lot stacked against us’: Ferguson inspires year of art

By Carey Reed

The death of Michael Brown and a grand jury's subsequent decision not to indict the officer who shot him spurred nationwide protests. But the events in Ferguson also inspired creative responses from artistic communities both within St. Louis County and across the…

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Aug 07

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Ferguson takes steps toward change in year since Michael Brown’s death

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It’s nearly a year since Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, setting off a firestorm of protest and political activism around aggressive law enforcement and race. Hari Sreenivasan…

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Jul 23

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: We accept violence against African-Americans as normal

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In his new book, “Between the World and Me,” Atlantic magazine columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the looming violence that African-Americans endure every day, in the form of a letter to his 14-year-old son. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Coates about…

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Jun 14

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What really led to the choking death of Eric Garner?

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It has been almost a year since the release of the video showing the choking death of Eric Garner as he was being arrested in Staten Island, New York. Garner’s death, along with the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of…

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