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  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House

    Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson

    What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson The Washington Post 2014-11-28 Sally Kohn Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice. In the days before the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon decided to impose a pre-emptive state of emergency, a white relative posted…

  • Explaining Ferguson to interracial children

    Explaining Ferguson to interracial children KSDK TV-5 St. Louis, Missouri 2014-11-27 Christina Coleman, Anchor-Reporter Family Counselor Michael Herold strongly recommends having plenty of discussions about the different cultural traditions experiences that make up the child’s racial background on both sides of their family. View the video here.

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it

    Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us

    Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us Mixed In Canada 2014-11-25 Rema Tavares By now you probably already know that Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted yesterday, November 24th, 2014 for murdering unarmed Black youth Mike Brown on August 9th, 2014. Ever since that day, folks around the world have been showing their support, as…

  • In Response to #Ferguson

    In Response to #Ferguson One Drop of Love 2014-11-25 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I spent yesterday, like so many of my friends and family, wavering between deep sadness and deep anger. I understand that, because I was a witness to a family member being brutalized by a police officer, I have a different perspective than those…

  • It’s her Ferguson — and it’s not all black and white

    It’s her Ferguson — and it’s not all black and white Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-17 Moni Basu Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Stefannie Wheat carried a yard sign all the way from her Midwestern town to the nation’s capital. She visited the White House and tucked it into the guard rail. “I Love Ferguson,” it…

  • How Ferguson could be America’s future

    How Ferguson could be America’s future Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-08-23 John Blake (CNN) — The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have been described as a mirror into contemporary America, but they are also something else: A crystal ball. Look past the headlines — the debates over race and police militarization that have surfaced after the…