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After Ferguson: Repentance is not a media event

October 17, 2014 Barbara Finch Activism, Missouri region, Police Leave a comment

Of all the news stories that have been written about the sad horror of the August shooting in Ferguson, MO, has there ever been

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Ferguson aftermath: Why I think Darren Wilson will not be indicted

October 2, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Courts, Police, Uncategorized One comment

A few years ago, I was a member of the St. Louis County Grand Jury—the same body that is currently considering evidence in the

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Ferguson, as seen by editorial cartoonists

August 21, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Missouri region, Police 2 comments

There’s nothing funny about what has been happening in Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of the shooting–by a police officer– of Michael Brown, an

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Ferguson: How I’m going to discuss it in my classroom

August 17, 2014 Frank Kovarik Cities, Civil Rights, Education, Literature/Arts/Film, Missouri region One comment

Yesterday from 12:15 to about 2:15 in the afternoon, I marched with about a thousand other people from the spot where Mike Brown was

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What we can learn from the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri

August 13, 2014 Arthur Lieber History, Missouri region, Violence One comment

When I was in college in 1968, I attended Congressional hearings on the 1967 urban riots (soon to be followed by even more severe

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Spanish Lake: Another lesson in failed urban planning

June 27, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, History, Missouri region Leave a comment

“Spanish Lake” is a new documentary film that looks at the physical, economic and social decline of a suburban neighborhood just north of St.

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