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Oct 02 2014
News
Grand Jury In Ferguson Shooting Investigated For Misconduct
Officials in St. Louis County, Missouri, said they are “looking into” allegations of misconduct on the grand jury hearing the case against Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.
The county prosecutor's office received information Wednesday morning suggesting that a juror may have discussed evidence in the case with a friend, office
HuffPost
Aug 20 2014
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With Ferguson, Obama Forced To Confront Race Yet Again
The tense situation in Ferguson, Mo., following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown is another test for President Obama. He has struggled at times over how to navigate long-simmering tensions between police and the African-American community.
Obama says he understands the passions and the anger that have engulfed Ferguson over the past week and a half, but he has
NPR (Online News)
Aug 19 2014
News
Ferguson mayor: No 'racial divide'
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles on Tuesday stood by his comments about racial tensions in his city, saying that none of the city’s residents believe there is a racial divide in the community. During a contentious interview with MSNBC’s Tamron Hall, Knowles — who has previously downplayed racial tensions in Ferguson’s history — was asked whether he had changed his opinions after seeing outcries
Politico
Aug 19 2014
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Fresh Clashes In Ferguson, Mo., As National Guard Arrives
Protesters clashed yet again with police in Ferguson, Mo., the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot by police Aug. 9. National Guard troops moved in by Gov. Jay Nixon didn't get involved, and the officer in charge of security in Ferguson said police came under fire and were targeted by Molotov cocktails. Thirty-one people were arrested.
NPR (Online News)
Aug 16 2014
News
How the media discovered Ferguson
Score one for the Beltway media. After several nights of intense community outrage over the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, it wasn’t until two Washington-based reporters from The Huffington Post and The Washington Post were arrested by heavily armed local police that the political class in D.C. and Jefferson City started paying attention.
Politico
May 13 2015
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Obama accused of making 'disrespectful' and 'sexist' comments toward Warren
President Obama is facing criticism from his liberal base over what they say are “disrespectful” and even sexist comments about Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has led the opposition against a White House-backed trade bill.
“I think the president was disrespectful to her about the way he did that,” Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, told reporters Tuesday, a few days after Obama
Fox News (Online News)
Jul 11 2012
News
Bipartisanship isn't dirty word in Massachusetts Senate race
Hyannis, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown rode into office two years ago as an everyman with a pickup truck, vowing to "take back the peoples' seat" held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for nearly half a century.
CNN (Online News)
Jun 03 2012
News
Warren Fends Off Party Challenger in Massachusetts Race
In a display of political muscle, Elizabeth Warren overwhelmingly won the state Democratic Partys endorsement on Saturday for the United States Senate seat held by Scott P. Brown, a Republican. With the size of her victory, she avoided a party primary in September.
New York Times (News)
May 17 2014
News
60 years on: Education, segregation and the Obama White House
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education said separate schools for children of color were unacceptable, the same deep-seated inequalities that drove parents to the courtroom in 1954 haunt classrooms across the country. Saturday marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that spawned hundreds of federal desegregation orders — largely the result of parent lawsuits — that forced
Politico
Dec 28 2014
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Civil rights leaders at odds as Ferguson protests grow
Protests against police treatment of black people have laid bare growing tensions between long-standing civil rights groups that have battled discrimination for decades and new groups of leaders who want an edgier approach.
Activists who spurred demonstrations across the country after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man in Ferguson, Mo
USA TODAY