Ferguson Anniversary

In December, the St. Louis Public Radio newsroom started planning for Aug. 9, 2019, the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s death and the beginning…

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…

Michael Brown’s 2014 death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer painted a clear picture of the troubled relationship between the police and the…

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…

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…