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March 12, 2018
Matt Ford
The Case Against Jaywalking Laws
They're enforced disproportionately against black Americans, sometimes with fatal results.
August 17, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
What Ferguson Means Now
A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.
June 22, 2017
MagazineMychal Denzel Smith
A Grief Observed
From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.
April 6, 2017
MagazinePeniel E. Joseph
Why Black Lives Matter Still Matters
Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what's next for the movement?
January 27, 2016
Steven Cohen
Ferguson residents finally get their say in the city’s settlement process with the Department of Justice.
December 20, 2015
Steven Cohen
Why can’t Democrats speak out against the Ferguson Effect?
November 19, 2015
Steven Cohen
Statistically speaking, the Ferguson Effect is bogus. No one who believes in the Ferguson Effect will care.
August 10, 2015
Nicholas D. Mirzoeff
#BlackLivesMatter Is Breathing New Life Into the Die-In
August 6, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"In the End ... No One Really Cared"
The failure of criminal justice reform in Missouri
May 26, 2015
Benjamin Anastas
Teaching the Controversy
James Baldwin and Richard Wright in the Ferguson Era
May 11, 2015
Joel Gillin
How Social Scientists Try—and Sometimes Fail—to Predict Riots
May 7, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
What Is David Brooks's Purpose?
The Times columnist says moral debate is dying. He must not be paying attention to #BlackLivesMatter.
May 7, 2015
Brian Beutler
Police Unions Aren't the Problem
Dismantling them would do little to end brutality and impunity
April 28, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"It Took This to Bring the Light To Everything"
Baltimoreans say calls for peace are futile without an agenda for change
April 8, 2015
Joel Gillin
Ferguson Court Clerk: Being Fired for Racist Emails Was Like "Being Raped"
April 7, 2015
Jamil Smith
The Man Who Loves Ferguson (Just as It Is)
An interview with City Council candidate and former mayor Brian Fletcher.
April 6, 2015
Jamil Smith
Does the Black Church Need to Lead the Ferguson Movement?
April 3, 2015
Jamil Smith
Ferguson Faces Its Future
Tuesday's election is the first since Michael Brown's death
March 18, 2015
Cristian Farias
"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Was Not Built on a Lie
Ferguson's message is as powerful as ever.
March 13, 2015
Cristian Farias
Comment on Ferguson? Not My Job, Says Justice Stephen Breyer.

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