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"A Human Rights Crisis": In Unprecedented Move, Amnesty International Sends Monitors to Ferguson After a week that saw a militarized police crackdown and the imposition of a nighttime curfew, Amnesty International USA has taken an "unprecedented" step by sending a 13-person ... Read More →

Missouri Deploys National Guard to Ferguson; Autopsy Shows Police Shot Michael Brown 6 Times A private autopsy report has found that Michael Brown—the African-American teenager killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri—was shot at least six times, including twice in the ... Read More →

Ferguson Protests Erupt Near Grave of Ex-Slave Dred Scott, Whose Case Helped Fuel U.S. Civil War Just miles away from the scene of the protests in Ferguson lies the grave of Dred Scott at the Calvary Cemetery on West Florissant Avenue. Born a slave in Virginia, Dred Scott sued in a ... Read More →

Institutional Racism in Ferguson? First Black School Chief Speaks Out After Forced Resignation As protests continue in Ferguson, we are joined by Art McCoy, who in 2010 became the first African-American school superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District. But ... Read More →

St. Louis Pastor: Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson Should Resign Community outrage grew in Ferguson, Missouri, over the weekend after the police named the officer who shot Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, after withholding his identity for five days. ... Read More →

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