See how people all over the country reacted to the decision from the Ferguson grand jury.
President Obama issued a matter-of-fact (read: awful) speech after news broke that Darren Wilson would not face charges for the murder of Michael Brown. Progress seemed to be the focus of Obama’s somber speech as he attempted to ease the pain of a nation of Brown supporters who wanted nothing more than to see […]
The family of Michael Brown has released a statement following the announced by Prosecutor McCulloch on the Grand Jury’s finding of no probable cause to file charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed 18 year-old Michael Brown on August 9, in Ferguson, Missouri. BREAKING NEWS: Darren Wilson Will Not Face Charges […]
Race. It’s a fictional concept; a socially constructed idea – it doesn’t actually exist in nature. Yet its social construction does not give it immunity from real consequences – consequences that can be observed and analyzed. History reminds us of that; the presence lives in its awareness. In our socio-political climate, race has never been […]
One young girl believes she can calm tensions in Ferguson through the power of music, and she’s willing to test out that theory. Protests, marches and riots in the streets haven’t done much to ease things in the St. Louis suburb following Michael Brown’s shooting death. Maybe music might do the trick? At just 7-years-old, […]
Jaris Hayden, a former corrections officer is Ferguson, Missouri has been accused of raping a pregnant inmate (about three months) and allowed her to escape from jail in exchange for sexual acts. The 29-year-old former officer is facing four criminal charges, including two counts of having sexual contact with a prisoner, one count of permitting […]
This is not your momma’s civil rights movement,” said Ashley Yates, a leader of Millennial Activists United. “This is a movement where you have several different voices, different people. The person in charge is really — the people. But the message from everyone is the same: Stop killing us.” The Millennial Activists United group was […]
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday ahead the announcement of findings of…
This powerful video above shows Ferguson residents and business owners preparing for the Darren Wilson decision. Over the weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, a couple hundred demonstrators gathered in the streets in protest. These passionate protestors decided on a different approach and laid down in the street outside a downtown theater, pretending to have been […]
The Ferguson Police Department has already determined its next steps as the world waits for a verdict from the grand jury in Darren Wilson’s case. Tensions in Ferguson are on a rolling boil as Michael Brown’s supporters get ready to protest should the grand jury decide to clear Darren of charges related to the unarmed […]
Brown's parents Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. remain on the mission to seek justice...and on behalf of their son, they've taken their cause internationally as they delivered a 13-page oration to the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland on "global intervention".
