On Tuesday night, more than two dozen people gathered near the spot where Michael Brown Jr. was gunned down three…
Michael Brown was just 18 years old when he was gunned down in Ferguson, Mo., by Police Officer Darren Wilson in…
Lezley McSpadden, 37, mother of Michael Brown Jr. and the Ferguson movement, graduated from high school on May 26,…
Edward Crawford, 27, a Ferguson, Mo., protester and activist, was found in his car dead from a gunshot wound.
Updated Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 3:45 p.m. EDT: Earlier today, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, who…
Ferguson, Mo., was once again rocked by protests a day after new footage from the day of Michael Brown’s death was…
"Complicated" has become a convenient catch-all to describe romantic relationships that seem to defy explanation. So…
It’s been a year since Mara Willaford and I jumped up onstage with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in what…
I started my time at Advancement Project one year ago. My first big assignment came only three weeks after my first…
It’s been two years since the killing of an 18-year-old unarmed African-American teen named Michael Brown in…
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012,…
If you watch the news, you've probably seen or at least heard about the pre-game display that a few of the St. Louis…
***Damon's latest for Ebony on the similarities between Ray Rice defenders and the people defending George Zimmerman…
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When the smoke finally clears from Ferguson, Missouri, and there are answers or justice or whatever is going to…
One thing I have stopped doing over the years is looking at hip-hop artists to be a voice for our social conscious.…
This title is not hyperbole. There is also no sarcasm here.
I'm a huge President Obama fan. Which, these days, often makes me an Obama defender. Part of this defense is a…