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Guest AuthorSeptember 10, 2014

Michael Brown was “no angel,” The New York Times reported, and “a handful” who later “overcame early struggles in school to graduate on time.” Trayvon Martin was a polite, shy volunteer, CNN informed us, while pointing out his 10-day drug-related suspension from school. Some media sources don’t attempt to show both “problems and promise.” Brown […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 2, 2014

Seeing a number of young black men in my English composition class this week, I was reminded that when Michael Brown died so did his dream of attending Vatterott College. His seat in the Class of 2018 will forever remain vacant. Since the recent high school graduate was shot by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, […]

Daniel TilsonAugust 25, 2014

Here in August 2014, 50 years after the historic “Mississippi Summer of 1964” helped propel America forward in search of Civil Rights progress, I’m literally brought to tears by what has happened in Ferguson, Mo. They’re tears of both grief and rage, just like they were 50 years ago. My first cousin Karen (now a […]

Guest AuthorAugust 24, 2014

Florida was lucky that Trayvon Martin’s killing in Sanford in February 2012 did not trigger a riot. But if we consider the anatomy of a riot, we’ll know that it wasn’t simply dumb luck — but the absence of destructive forces. First, the entire country, both black and white, grieved for Trayvon. Apart from some loony […]

Julie DelegalAugust 18, 2014

The police-shooting death of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, continues to bring citizens out of their homes and onto the streets. On August 9, 28-year-old Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black. The shooting itself was tragic enough. Police actions after the shooting, though, have made Ferguson […]

Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2014

The story in Ferguson, Missouri, is all too familiar, even callously so. A young, unarmed black man is shot by a white police officer. A frustrated community erupts in anger. While the details involving the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown are still being investigated, one fact is troubling and clear: Another casual encounter between […]

Tag: Michael Brown

Laurie Uttich: Don’t label teens dying in our streets — we mourn them all

Andrew Skerritt: Who takes Michael Brown’s vacant seat in college?

Daniel Tilson: Ferguson shows how far we’ve come — in wrong direction

Rachel Patron: Ferguson, Missouri: The anatomy of a riot

Julie Delegal: Ferguson, Missouri: Police didn’t trust the system

Andrew J. Skerritt: Ferguson seems a case study of race and power gone wrong