The Kids Of Ferguson Rise Up
With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.
With the suburb’s teens a year after the death of Michael Brown.
Alex French MTV Aug 2015 25min Permalink
Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.
Thomas Lake CNN Aug 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of Killer Mike, the self-described “gangsta rap suburban father” whose speech about Ferguson went viral last fall.
Bijan Stephen The New Republic Dec 2015 10min Permalink
An interview about Black Lives Matter and the last 18 months of activism in America.
Rembert Browne New York Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink
“What it means — for the reporting we do, for the brands we represent, and for our own mental health — that we don’t stop being black people when we’re working as black reporters. That we quite literally have skin in the game.”
Gene Demby NPR Aug 2015 15min Permalink
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink
A black British father on his 12 years in the U.S.
Gary Younge The Guardian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
A narrative of the Michael Brown shooting.
Jorie Jacobi The St. Louis Curator Jan 2015 35min Permalink
Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.
Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Dec 2014 20min Permalink
“The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him ‘like a football player, head down,’ is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication.’”
William Bastone, Andrew Goldberg, Joseph Jesselli The Smoking Gun Dec 2014 10min Permalink
The mainstreaming of livestreaming.
Adrian Chen New York Dec 2014 15min Permalink
On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.
Frank Rich New York Dec 2014 30min Permalink
An argument for how the system protects police.
Chase Madar The Nation Nov 2014 15min Permalink
On Cops, cop movies and Ferguson.
Wesley Morris Grantland Aug 2014 15min Permalink
Two days in crisis.
At that moment, I didn’t feel like a journalist. There was nothing about this event that I felt the need to chronicle. There was no time to find out what the bombs actually were and what was actually coming out of the guns and what type of gas was coming out of the canisters. In this moment, there was nothing I felt the need to broadcast to the world. I didn’t even have the desire to communicate my safety or lack thereof.
I was just a black man in Ferguson.
Rembert Browne Grantland Aug 2014 15min Permalink
“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”
Jelani Cobb New Yorker Aug 2014 Permalink