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Race and Policing Roundtable
WNYC host Jami Floyd, Joel McCord, news director and news reporter for WYPR in Baltimore, and Rachel Lippmann, courts and public safety reporter at St. Louis Public Radio, preview Wednesday evening’s...
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On Talking Race to Young Teens, Teachers Say It's Been a Tough Year
After a year that saw high-profile police shootings plus the deadly attack on a black church in South Carolina, middle school teachers told WNYC their classrooms were abuzz with personal and sometimes...
View ArticleFerguson, One Year Later
Click on the audio player above to hear this story.Nearly a year ago, the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old African-American shot by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, touched off a firestorm...
View Article'Separate But Equal' Never Ended in Education
Nikole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, spent the past year reporting on the Normandy school district, near Ferguson, MO (where Michael Brown went). She tells a story of...
View ArticleA Vulgar Spectacle
After Donald Trump insulted Fox News' Megyn Kelly, the network made a strange deal with the GOP front runner. We hear what it says about media relationships with candidates in this election cycle....
View ArticleA 'Never-Ending Nightmare' in Ferguson
A year after the death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri was thrust back into the national spotlight, filtered through a lens of déjà vu: state of emergency, police aggression, arrests. But this...
View ArticleCaptain Ron Johnson Reflects on Police-Community Relations and Ferguson Today
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Last summer, in the weeks following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Governor Jay Nixon appointed a 16-member panel to examine...
View ArticleToday's Takeaways: Nobel Peace Prize, Forward Through Ferguson, New Movie...
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View ArticleForward Through Ferguson: St. Louis Community Roundtable
Click on the audio player above to hear this discussion.Just over a year ago, Michael Brown, a black unarmed teenager, was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in the St. Louis suburb of...
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Ferguson, Justice Department close to agreement
Student activists at Washington University in St. Louis take part in a nationwide “Hands up, walk out” protest, demanding justice for the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Photo by...
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Ferguson, Justice Department reach agreement on overhaul of policing practices
A Ferguson Police officer drives past a mural in the St. Louis suburb. The city and the Justice Department have agreed on a series of policing protocols, 16 months after the fatal shooting of Michael...
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Justice Department opens probe into San Francisco’s police practices
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, center, walks through Super Bowl City in San Francisco, days before the big event. The Justice Department said it will review the city’s police procedures, two...
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Attorney General to visit 6 cities to highlight police work
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department’s role in implementing new executive actions related to gun control in Washington,...
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DOJ raps Ferguson City Council for ‘unnecessary delay’ on police reforms
A person wears a T-shirt honoring the memory of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18 year old shot by police in the Missouri city of Ferguson, at Greater St. Mark Family Church in St. Louis on Aug. 12, 2014....
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News Wrap: Justice Department files suit against Ferguson
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Good evening. I’m Hari Sreenivasan. Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, preparing for tomorrow night’s Democratic debate.On the...
View ArticleIs the 'Ferguson Effect' Really Behind the Growing Murder Rate?
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. On May 15, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers and their families gather in Washington, D.C. to remember their colleagues who have...
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Ferguson proposes another tax hike to make up lost revenue
A Ferguson Police officer drives past a mural in the St. Louis suburb. Photo by Jim Young/ReutersFERGUSON, Mo. — Ferguson city leaders, struggling to balance a budget decimated by fallout from the...
View ArticleThere's a New Top Cop in Ferguson: Chief Delrish Moss
At the beginning of May, the city of Ferguson moved ahead with a hiring that has been two years in the making. Delrish Moss was tapped as city's new chief of police — he retired as head of...
View ArticleData Cop Out
Weather, moon phases, locations of schools and churches -- these are all factors considered in predictive policing, a practice of analyzing crime data and uncovering patterns that may give patrol...
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A play that speaks to Ferguson’s tragedy and lets the audience speak back
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It has been, as we have been discussing, a difficult week in Charlotte, where police and residents have clashed over the shooting death of a black man.It...
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Ferguson emerges as factor in Missouri governor’s race
A protester sits in her car waiting to see what happens during another night of demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri August 11, 2015. A state of emergency that was declared on Monday for the Ferguson...
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In joy and discrimination, poet explores duality of growing up black
Clint Smith is the author of “Counting Descent” published in September 2016. Photo by Elnatan Melaku.Poet Clint Smith says he began writing “Counting Descent” in response to the shooting death of...
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Pew survey: Officers feel more reluctant to use force, make stops
A Ferguson police officer stands on watch as protesters demonstrate outside the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015. Photo by Michael Thomas/Getty ImagesATLANTA — The so-called...
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Student’s controversial painting of Ferguson removed from Capitol display
A painting is seen on the U.S. Capitol walls. It is the work of recent high school graduate David Pulphus, and depicts his interpretation of civil unrest in and around the 2014 events in Ferguson,...
View ArticleInequality in the Trump Era, Scientific Censorship, Singing the Blues in St....
Coming up on today's show:On Friday, the Trump Administration disclosed the financial statuses of its top officials, and the disclosure once again calls into question the interests of the...
View ArticleProgress Drags in Ferguson
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. When 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, his death triggered protests...
View ArticleConfronting Power, Privilege, and Race in St. Louis
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Nearly three years ago, when an 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, issues surrounding...
View ArticleFormer Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson
The former Police Chief of Ferguson, Mo., Thomas Jackson discusses his book Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened . . . and What the Country Can Learn from It. Nearly three years...
View ArticleLeonard Lopate Weekend: Ferguson Ex-Police Chief, Crown Heights, College...
The former Police Chief of Ferguson, Mo., Thomas Jackson discusses his perspective on the death of Michael Brown and the aftermath in Ferguson. Executive producer Nnamdi Asomugha with his film, “Crown...
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It’s time to really get uncomfortable and talk about racism, says this...
Watch VideoThe post It’s time to really get uncomfortable and talk about racism, says this filmmaker appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
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What’s happening in St. Louis?
People continue to march after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer, charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in...
View ArticleAfter Ferguson, A Play from the Many Faces of St. Louis
Playwright Dael Orlandersmith discusses Until the Flood, which she wrote and performs in. Written in response to Michael Brown’s death and commissioned by the St. Louis Repertory Theater, Orlandersmith...
View Article'Antigone in Ferguson'
Bryan Doerries, director and translator of Antigone and artistic director of Theater of War, NYC community activist Marcelle Davies Lashley and Latricia Allen, a St. Louis police lieutenant, talk about...
View ArticleDid Ferguson Change America?
DeRay Mckesson, co-founder of Campaign Zero, host of Pod Save The People and author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking, 2018), discusses the big headlines involving crime and...
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[Unedited] Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar with Krista Tippett
We must shine a light on the past to live more abundantly now. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed and painter Titus Kaphar lead us in an exploration of that as a public adventure in this conversation at the...
View ArticleReflecting on Ferguson, Five Years Later
It’s been five years since Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Within days, Ferguson was flooded with reporters from all across the world, including The Takeaway's host...
View Article[Unedited] Darnell Moore with Krista Tippett
Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wise...
View ArticleDarnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution
Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wise...
View ArticleFerguson: Five Years Later (A Takeaway Special Podcast)
Reflecting on Ferguson, Five Years LaterIt's been five years since Michael Brown was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.Ferguson's New Generation of ActivistsMichael Brown's death, and the...
View ArticleThe Toll of Covering Police Brutality as a Black Journalist
Last Friday, CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez was arrested live on air by Minnesota State Police in Minneapolis. Jimenez, who is black, and his crew were taken into police custody and released that same...
View Article[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett
“Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone across time.” With his public health project, Theater of War, he...
View ArticlePBS Documentary 'Ferguson Rises'
Michael Brown Jr.'s death in Ferguson, Missouri is considered to be the founding moment of the modern Black Lives Matter movement. But behind the protests and calls for change in response to ongoing...
View ArticleScottie Pippen, 'Ferguson Rises' Documentary, Musician Christian McBride,...
Six-time NBA Champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Scottie Pippen joins us to discuss his new memoir with Michael Arkush, Unguarded. The book takes readers through Pippen’s childhood and his...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Asks: What News Defined Your Generation?
In January, WNYC host Brian Lehrer embarked on an oral history project, where callers described the events that changed their lives forever. The series was titled News That Defined Your Generation, and...
View ArticleNicole Sealey Erased the Ferguson Report So That You Will See It
The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was a flash point for the Black Lives Matter movement. Brown, who was unarmed, was gunned down by police. The killing, and subsequent lack of criminal...
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