Once again the nation is in an outrage over the murder of Michael Brown by a Missouri police officer. But the focus has shifted from the…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol seized control of a St. Louis suburb Thursday, stripping local police of their law-enforcement authority after four days of clashes between officers in riot gear and furious crowds protesting the death of an unarmed black teen shot by an officer. The intervention, ordered by Missouri Gov. Jay […]
This afternoon, President Barack Obama issued a statement on the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was fatally shot on Saturday by a police officer…
I’m trying to understand why Michael Brown is lying dead from a police officer’s bullet instead of packing his bags and heading to college. Brown, 18, was killed last Saturday in what could be called the war against young Black men – the escalating confrontations between police and African American males, a fierce war that […]
