Tag: Ferguson

Julie DelegalDecember 7, 2014

6min149
On the Monday before Thanksgiving, something obscene happened in Jacksonville. The indecency I’m talking about didn’t have anything to do with the photography exhibit at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). A nude photograph of a relaxed pregnant woman enjoying the sunbeams caught the attention of Jacksonville City Councilman Clay Yarborough, who deemed it pornographic […]

Julie DelegalOctober 26, 2014

7min175
Ferguson. Sanford. Tallahassee. What do these three cities have in common? It’s not what you might think. It has nothing to do with perceived arch-villains such as Darren Wilson, George Zimmerman, or Jameis Winston. I don’t believe in arch-villains. I do believe, though, in the predictability of human nature. Sometimes, human beings behave badly. And […]

Guest AuthorAugust 19, 2014
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6min159
Ferguson is Florida redux. In Miami, in 1980, after four white police officers were acquitted by an all-male, all-white jury of killing Arthur McDuffie, an African-American, some of the worst race riots in America occurred. The violence that erupted went beyond the perceived injustice of the verdict and the particulars of the incident. (At trial, […]


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