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Being a police officer was the job of his life. He thought that he would work for 30 years and then make sergeant and then retire. But Aug. 9 changed all of that for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown. In the second installment of an hour-and-a-half…

Civil rights groups are on different pages about the proposed changes that census officials might make to the racial and ethnic categories that appear on the 2020 census. According to Al-Jazeera, the changes are meant to reconcile the concerns of Hispanic and Arab American groups that don’t feel as if the current slate of racial…

The second day of protests continued in Ferguson, Mo., as police arrested some 44 people, but authorities considered Tuesday’s protests to be more calm overall, and attributed that to the some 2,000 National Guard troops deployed to the St. Louis suburb. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar noted…

Chants of “We ready! We coming!” could be heard in front of Washington, D.C.’s Office of Police Complaints Tuesday afternoon. Led by members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Black Youth Project 100—an organization dedicated to creating justice for all black people—youth protesters gathered in various locations around D.C. in response to the Darren Wilson…

For the first time since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown pushed the name “Darren Wilson” into the national consciousness, America got to hear the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally shot the unarmed teen speak. From a secret location and only a day after a St. Louis grand jury decided not to charge…

Stereotypes are dangerous. And for Michael Brown, they proved to be deadly. Of all that we heard Monday night about the St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Brown, what kept me awake for hours after the announcement was made was Wilson’s testimony.…

A review of the grand jury testimony of Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson opens up a window allowing us to see how police testimony is treated in an investigation. In the case of the shooting death of Michael Brown, Wilson often gets favorable treatment even in several questionable and eyebrow-raising passages.   If Brown’s family…