#FergusonFiasco, Pt. 2: After the Grand Jury Decision: A Reader

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#FergusonFiasco, Pt. 2: After the Grand Jury Decision: A Reader 2015-04-29T19:23:39-05:00 Guest Contributor

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On Monday, November 24, District Attorney Bob McCullough announced there would not be an indictment of Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of unarmed 18 year old Michael Brown. While not coming as a big surprise to many who followed the case, it still was painful to hear and watch. Here at R3, we started the first Reader on the Ferguson Fiasco by examining the killing of Michael Brown and now we pick up with the second Reader focusing on material in response to the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict. If you have a piece you would like for us to include, please send it to us at [email protected]. Read our collection of Readers here.

1. Documents Released in the Ferguson Case
2. The Ferguson, Mo. Shooting in American History: What to Tell the Children
3. ‘Ferguson Goddamn’
4. I am utterly undone: My struggle with black rage and fear after Ferguson
5. Officer Darren Wilson’s story is unbelievable. Literally.
6. The Baptism of Michael Brown Sr. and Ferguson’s Baptism by Fire
7. Ferguson Protests And Michael Brown Shooting ‘Show American Hypocrisy On Race’
8. Why Ferguson outcome should haunt every parent
9. Ferguson Grand Jury Evidence Reveals Mistakes, Holes In Investigation
10. Ferguson: The Latest Manifestation of Systemic Racial Injustice
11. Michael Brown, racism and America’s open casket
12. The five leaders who failed Ferguson
13. Michael Brown spent his last day with his friend Dorian Johnson. Here’s what Johnson saw.
14. Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid
15. Where Do We Go After Ferguson?
16. Dehumanizing Ferguson
17. Why Ferguson Burns
18. Fury After Ferguson
19. Ferguson must force us to face anti-blackness
20. Ferguson exit poll shows racial polarization in views of police
21. Why we still have to say #BlackLivesMatter
22. The vital lessons we have learned from Ferguson
23. The Pathology of the Magical Negro Narrative in Mike Brown Ruling
24. America wiped out years of progress. Let’s have ‘the race conversation’ for real this time
25. Think riots have never caused change in America? Think again
26. The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’
27. What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson
28. The view on Ferguson, Mike Brown and the America we live in today
29. From Emmett Till to Michael Brown
30. Eric Garner, Michael Brown and why whites, blacks, Latinos react differently
31. Reflections after Ferguson: Surveillance and the Black Body
32. The GOP’s Ferguson moment
33. After Ferguson, a Consideration of ‘Race’
34. Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, and the Dangers of Blind Belief
35. “Not One More Darren Wilson, Not One More Mike Brown”: National Protests Continue Ferguson Struggle
36. Ferguson Won’t Heal
37. Dehumanizing the Black Lives of America: Michael Eric Dyson on Ferguson, Police Brutality and Race
38. The American Justice System Is Not Broken
39. This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right Now
40. Most White People in America Are Completely Oblivious
41. 5Q+1 interview: Godbeat pro Lilly Fowler on covering faith and the front lines in #Ferguson
42. Charles Barkley, wrong on race, Ferguson and Garner
43. Michael Brown, Eric Garner: 10 Tribute Songs From T.I., Alicia Keys, J. Cole, And More
44. Racism in the United States
45. Is it about race? You bet it is
46. Black Lives Matter, Hurricane McCulloch, and the Winds of Change
47. AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL COMMUNITY TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER
48. A police officer’s open letter to black protesters
49. Respectability Politics Won’t Save Your Black Life
50. White America’s scary delusion: Why its sense of black humanity is so skewed
51. #BlackLivesMatter: How the world sees Eric Garner, Michael Brown cases
52. Ferguson’s Despair and the Devastation of White Privilege
53. The Michael Brown Racism Case
54. Dear White Preachers, Take Off Your Prophet’s Mantel
55. Black LGBT Religious Leaders United
56. Obama on Brown, Garner and Race in America
57. State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner – Expanded Version
58. To the Color-blinders: Don’t Dilute the Message
59. Why I am angry and have the right to be so
60. ‘Poverty violations’ help fuel racial divide in St. Louis County
61. Supporting Only ‘Good’ Black Victims Won’t Dismantle White Supremacy
62. The Concern With Modern White Liberalism
63. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the ‘Other America’
64. Prejudice All Around
65. The Cleveland Browns’ Andrew Hawkins, #BlackLivesMatter and the Accidental Activist
66. The Ferguson Theatre Syllabus
67. “Witness 40”: Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson
68. Systemic racism underlies unrest
69. White and African American Pastors Join in Conversation about Issues of Race, and How the Church Can Help
70. Turn Up: 21st-Century Black Millennials Are Bringing Direct Action Back
71. In Ferguson

72. At the Visual Crossroads: Blackness and the Matter of Life or Death
73. Michael Brown Wasn’t a Superhuman Demon
74. What We Can Learn From Ella Baker In A Post-Ferguson Era
75. Black Lives: Between Grief and Action
76. MICHAEL BROWN SR. AND THE AGONY OF THE BLACK FATHER IN AMERICA
77. Race and Voting Rights in Ferguson
78. Michael Brown, Sr. on the Aftermath of His Son’s Death

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