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Lincoln University President Robert R. Jennings resigned on Monday morning several weeks after a video went viral that showed Jennings giving a controversial lecture to female students in September about sexual assault prevention, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The Daily News is also reporting that the university “announced the appointment of a task force on…

During St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch’s press conference Monday night, during which he explained why a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, McCulloch made shocking revelations about the testimony of some of the key witnesses. “The most credible eyewitnesses to the shooting…

Shortly after Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced that a St. Louis grand jury would not be charging Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown, chaos erupted. Reports of gunfire in and around Ferguson permeated the news as several police cars and buildings along West Florissant Avenue, the main…

Monday the public learned that a Missouri grand jury found that it did not have sufficient evidence to indict Michael Brown’s shooter, police Officer Darren Wilson. People are angry and disappointed, but the legal system may not be through with Wilson—or the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department that employs him (although reportedly not for long). There…

Pay close attention. Because if you want to learn how to properly out-slick, crisis-manage and manipulate burgeoning social-justice movements, this is how you do it. That was the big lesson drawn from the draining weeks of knife-slicing tension. Ferguson, Mo., just wrote a textbook on how governments can time, script and engineer racially charged grand…

After months of pouring over evidence, a St. Louis County grand jury has decided that Ferguson, Mo., Officer Darren Wilson will face no criminal charges in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown. According to Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, the 12-person grand jury, including nine whites and three African Americans, that met…

After years of troubling allegations of serial rape, the recent takedown of Bill Cosby as a public figure may mark a radical shift in how we address our rape culture. And though the spiraling effect of these claims has produced an unprecedented backlash against him, a chasm remains between this promising moment of activism—powered especially…