Aug 19 Watch New police shooting in St. Louis stirs Ferguson unease By PBS News Hour A new shooting threatened to inflame protests in Ferguson, Missouri. St. Louis police shot and killed a man after he robbed a market and confronted officers with a knife. Judy Woodruff talks to Yamiche Alcindor of USA Today about response… Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch Public perceptions of Brown killing and protests reveal stark division by race By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 19 How schools’ delayed start in Ferguson is affecting kids By Colleen Shalby School was supposed to start last Thursday for the kids of Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch What will it take to restore calm and justice in the Ferguson community? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch 4:28 Missouri National Guard arrives in Ferguson to quell unrest By PBS News Hour The Missouri National Guard arrived in Ferguson on the orders of Gov. Jay Nixon a night after police again used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a crowd that was reportedly throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting at police. Continue watching
Aug 16 Federal officials reconsider giving military equipment to police By Associated Press After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch Brooks and Marcus on police power in Ferguson, political change in Iraq By PBS News Hour New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s top news, including the response to the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, by politicians and President Obama, as well as the political… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch Why it’s so difficult to retain a diverse police force By PBS News Hour The city of Ferguson, Missouri, is more than two-thirds African-American. But only three of its 53 police officers are black. Jeffrey Brown talks to Tracie Keesee of the UCLA Center for Policing Equity and Malik Aziz of the National Black… Continue watching
Aug 15 How has social media changed the way we talk about race and justice? By Nora Daly Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Stacia Brown of ColorLines about the social media response to the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. Continue reading
Aug 15 How news of Ferguson spread across the country via Twitter By Colleen Shalby To visualize how that news has spread across the United States, and beyond, Twitter plugged every geo-targeted tweet in connection with Ferguson into a heat map tool run by CartoDB. Continue reading