2015/03/04 – The Justice Department on Wednesday released a scathing 102-page report revealing systemic racial discrimination against African-Americans at the hands of the Ferguson Police Department and city officials. After an extensive federal civil rights probe, the Justice Department found what it described …..
2015/3/2-The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created years of racial animosity leading up to an officer’s shooting of a black teenager last …..
Chicago police have told their version of how 17-year-old black teen Laquan McDonald died. The autopsy tells a different story. 2014/2/11-An autopsy tells a story. The genre is mystery: a narrative set in motion by a corpse. The pathologist-narrator investigates …..
2014/2/11-Near the end of the 2015 Grammy Awards, which aired on Sunday, musical icon Prince presented the Grammy for Best Album, with this preamble: “Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.” In just over ten words, …..
2015/1/22-It began with a swap: one boy’s cellphone for another’s replica of a Colt pistol. One of the boys went to play in a nearby park, striking poses with the lifelike, airsoftstyle gun, which fired plastic pellets. He threw a snowball, settled down at …..
