by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call FERGUSON, Mo. – It has been nearly one year since Michael Brown Jr., was shot...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A silent march and a day of civil disobedience are among the events being...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has narrowed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Michael Brown Jr. against...
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – It’s labeled as a work of art; an exhibit in Chicago featuring a life size portrayal of Michael Brown after he was...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white...
Jim Suhr and Alan Scher Zagier, ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
ST. LOUIS (USA Today) — The friend who was with Michael Brown on the day the unarmed African American teen was shot and killed by...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Baltimore is not Ferguson. That was evident by opposite official reactions to the death of an unarmed African American...
Washington (CNN) – As the Missouri National Guard prepared to deploy to help quell riots in Ferguson, Missouri, that raged sporadically last year, the guard...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — Two black candidates have been elected to the Ferguson City Council, tripling African-American representation...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
(Bloomberg) – Next week, Crystal Stovall will choose between two black candidates running to represent her City Council ward in Ferguson, Missouri. The election is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that...
Michael Brown, Sr., right, and activist Anthony Shahid lead a protest in Clayton, Mo., the seat of government for St. Louis County. (J.A. Salaam/The Final Call)...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Addressing one of the Justice Department’s primary recommendations for the Police Department here, the new acting police chief said on...
MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington man who posted Facebook comments threatening a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer will avoid prison but has...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Five people in Ferguson have been fired or resigned under pressure in the week since the release of...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government’s withering report on the Ferguson Police Department issued a stern mandate to city leaders: Reform...
JEFF DONN, AP National Writer The Justice Department has released its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, concluding that city law enforcement practices are discriminatory and...
(The Washington Post) – The Justice Department just released its investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., police department, an inquiry that was initiated after an officer fatally...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal investigation of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, is expected to allege patterns of racial bias in...
(Politico) – In weighing whether to bring discrimination charges against the Ferguson Police Department, the Justice Department has been “seriously examining” allegations that the city’s...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks and Latinos are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates in part because police target them...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The federal investigation into the shooting death of black Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown has yielded insufficient evidence to support criminal...
