Jamala Rogers

In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones.

It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.

Mike Jones remembers being “shocked but not surprised” when he heard that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered.The assassination of the civil…

Legislation that would bring more civilian oversight to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is a step closer to Mayor Francis Slay's desk.The St.…

Lately, I can’t help but reflect on a 1968 best-seller book that was widely read and discussed but brought about little change. The book was the infamous…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 4, 2012 - Long before most St. Louisans knew about Kwanzaa, paid close attention to gay rights,…

This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. - Long before most St. Louisans knew about Kwanzaa, paid close attention to gay rights, thought…

A day after a measure granting St. Louis control of its police department cleared the latest of several legislative hurdles, a broad coalition of…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 21, 2010 - In January, he stood before friends and mentors, people in the community he respected…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 17, 2009 - On Monday night, the Missouri History Museum hosted a panel discussion about policing…