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Tag: Missouri

Cori Bush
Posted inBlack Experience, Politics

Cori Bush Elected as Missouri’s First-Ever Black Congresswoman

by WI Guest Author November 4, 2020December 21, 2021

Cori Bush, a nurse and political activist who gained national notoriety for protesting the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has become the state’s first Black woman ever elected to Congress.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted inNational

Kansas City Votes to Remove MLK Street Sign

by WI Guest Author November 6, 2019December 21, 2021
Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted inBlack Experience

Kansas City Voters to Decide on Street Name Change to Honor MLK

by WI Guest Author November 5, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

NAACP Warns Minorities Traveling to Missouri: ‘They May Not Be Safe’

by WI Guest Author August 1, 2017October 31, 2020
A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.
Posted inNational

Black Off-Duty Cop Shot by White Fellow Officer Who Was ‘Fearing for his Safety’

by WI Guest Author June 26, 2017October 30, 2020
Posted inBlack Experience, National

New Michael Brown Video Sparks Protests in Ferguson

by WI Guest Author March 14, 2017October 30, 2020
Posted inColumnists, Lauren Victoria Burke, National, Op-Ed, Opinion

Fox News Host, St. Louis Police Group Blast Teen’s Artwork in U.S. Capitol

by Lauren Victoria Burke January 2, 2017October 30, 2020
NATIONAL UNREST: Scores of blacks and other Americans, continue to march and protest in solidarity, determined to change police policies and laws that affect the lives of black men, women and children — even resulting in their deaths. The hashtag #blacklivesmatter has gained a life of its own as its message remains one of profound magnitude. (Courtesy of everyvoice.org)
Posted inEditorial

EDITORIAL: The ‘Ferguson Effect’ — Just Another Excuse?

by WI Webstaff November 4, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Missouri Police Stopped Blacks More Than Whites in 2014

by Washington Informer June 2, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inPolitics

Dozens of Ferguson-Related Reforms were Proposed in Missouri. Just One Passed.

by Reporter II May 16, 2015October 30, 2020

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