» For The First Time in 170 Years, Eden Seminary Will Have A Female President
17/06/20 10:07 from Michael Brown
Eden Theological Seminary is preparing to appoint its first-ever female president. Longtime Eden faculty member and former academic Dean Deborah Krause will replace David Greenhaw, who has been president since 1997, in July. An ordained ...

» Politically Speaking: Outgoing Ferguson Mayor Knowles On How His City Changed Since Michael Brown
15/06/20 10:28 from Michael Brown
James Knowles III was taking down tents with his father at the Ferguson Farmers Market on Aug. 9, 2014, the day one of his city’s police officers shot and killed Michael Brown. He learned about the shooting that would spark months of pro...

» 6 Years After Ferguson, St. Louis Activists' Message Remains: 'Black Lives Matter'
02/06/20 21:34 from Michael Brown
Six summers ago, protests against police brutality and racism brought the eyes of the nation to Ferguson. Now the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has set off another round of protests around the world — including Ferguson and St. ...

» Politically Speaking: ArchCity Defenders On 10 Years Of Fighting For Legal Justice
03/11/19 11:45 from Michael Brown
Blake Strode, executive director of ArchCity Defenders, and Jacki Langum, the organization’s advocacy director, talk about the group’s 10th anniversary on the latest edition of Politically Speaking. ArchCity is celebrating this week with...

» SLU Social Justice Night Features Author Who Studied Impact of Ferguson Unrest
19/09/19 10:06 from Michael Brown
Jennifer Cobbina found herself deeply affected by the 2014 protests in Ferguson. She called the St. Louis region her home for five years while she worked toward her doctorate at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Just two months after...

» Michael Brown Sr. Calls For Reopening The Investigation Of His Son’s Death
10/08/19 02:08 from Michael Brown
Michael Brown Sr. is asking the St. Louis County prosecutor to reopen the investigation into the death of his son, Michael Brown Jr. Brown requested the reopening of the case Friday, five years after Brown, 18, was fatally shot by Fergus...

» Reflections On Community Trauma 5 Years After #Ferguson
10/08/19 00:06 from Michael Brown
On the eve of the five-year anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s death, St. Louis Public Radio and poet and activist Cheeraz Gormon presented a live storytelling event featuring speakers whose lives changed drastically after Brown, 18, was...

» Politically Speaking: Tracking Political And Policy Change 5 Years After Michael Brown’s Death
08/08/19 16:39 from Michael Brown
On the latest edition of Politically Speaking, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum, Julie O’Donoghue and Rachel Lippmann take a look at how politics and policy has changed in five years since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson. This ...

» From The Streets To The Galleries, Artists Responded To Ferguson
08/08/19 10:11 from Michael Brown
Five years ago, Kevin and Danielle McCoy were making art that wasn’t particularly political. “We made a lot of safe work,” Kevin McCoy said, “but it didn’t have a lot of meaning. It didn’t get to the crux of the issues.” Then white Fergu...

» He Came To Be Part of Healing Ferguson, Now He’s Hoping A Coffee House Will Help
05/08/19 10:14 from Michael Brown
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas is not originally from Ferguson. He’s not even from the St. Louis region or Missouri. Thomas, a North Carolina native, moved here from Indianapolis in 2014, in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing and the ensuing ...

» After Years Of Slow Progress, Post-Ferguson Political Agenda Picks Up Steam In St. Louis County
01/08/19 10:15 from Michael Brown
Many people around the country saw Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson as the catalyst behind a new civil rights movement. But, even with the Ferguson protest movement going from the streets to the halls of government, political change in ...

» 'The Main Goal Is To Humanize Him': Mike Brown's Father And Stepmom Work On Memorial Art Show
16/07/19 18:15 from Michael Brown
Michael Brown Sr. is unapologetically quiet and introverted. “I’m not trying to be mean towards anyone, but sometimes I don’t have anything to say,” he said. His son, “Mike Mike,” was much the same way, he said, and it also made him a “b...

» 'It's Racism': Activist's Film Examines Why Being Black And Pregnant Can Be Dangerous
20/06/19 10:16 from Michael Brown
When a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown in 2014, St. Louisan Brittany Ferrell left nursing school to join the protests. Five years later, she’s pouring her activism into another outlet: a film project. “You Lucky You Got a Ma...

» With Ferguson City Council Seat, Activist Fran Griffin Hopes To 'Move Ferguson Forward'
16/04/19 21:30 from Michael Brown
Exactly one month after a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown about a mile from her home, Fran Griffin attended her first city council meeting. Determined to make her voice heard, she joined more than 600 people inside a crowded...

» Voters Reject MSD Rate Hike, Give St. Louis County Council Its Own Attorney
03/04/19 03:50 from Michael Brown
St. Louis and St. Louis County residents on Tuesday rejected a Metropolitan Sewer District tax increase aimed at stopping erosion and flooding. Voters also endorsed designating an attorney to represent the St. Louis County Council, while...

» Michael Brown's Mother, Lezley McSpadden, In 3-Way Race For Ferguson City Council
28/03/19 09:52 from Michael Brown
Nearly five years after Michael Brown’s death sparked protests and a movement over police treatment of African-Americans, his mother, Lezley McSpadden, is running for a Ferguson city council seat in the southern part of town where her so...

» Black Rep’s Latest Production Revisits Canfield Drive On Stage
08/01/19 23:03 from Michael Brown
In 2014, writers Michael Walker and Kristen Adele Calhoun met for the first time as grad students in New York City through a play-reading group. On that same day, a young man named Michael Brown was shot nearly 1,000 miles away in Fergus...

» Obama portraitist Wiley casts 'resplendent, almost religious light' on Ferguson, St. Louis residents
29/10/18 02:27 from Michael Brown
Kehinde Wiley has vivid memories of the first time he felt at home in the world of fine art. Growing up in 1980’s South Central Los Angeles, he’d occasionally go with his mother to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was there that ...

» ‘There was something missing’: Stint on New York stage energizes Normandy teacher
24/10/18 10:22 from Michael Brown
Normandy teacher Duane Foster recently returned from an unusual sabbatical: a role in an off-Broadway production of “Antigone in Ferguson.” Foster made his New York debut in “Ragtime” 20 years ago, then came home to St. Louis in 2006 and...

» ‘God let me live to see another day’: Ferguson protester hopes for clemency
01/10/18 10:10 from Michael Brown
Joshua Williams always stood out in a crowd. Even during the tense and chaotic 2014 Ferguson protests, Williams could easily be spotted in the signature red hoodie that he rarely went without. Williams was 18 years old at the time, the s...