Resources for Ferguson: News and Events

"Documenting Ferguson is a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible community- and media-generated, original content that was captured and created following the killing of 18-year-old, Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. A freely available resource for students, scholars, teachers, and the greater community, Documenting Ferguson has the ultimate goal of providing diverse perspectives of the events surrounding the conflicts in Ferguson."

Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning investigative reporting and news analysis. Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice.

Remarks from the Bloomberg Business Week, Politics & Policy

Opinion column from the New York Times newspaper.

Remarks by Rick Cohen in response to the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson (Nonprofit Quarterly, 26 November 2014)

An analysis by Abayomi Azikiwe on the continuous brutality in numerous cities. (Michigan Citizen, December 11, 2014)

Some seventy documents from the investigation into the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. The documents, including witness testimony and the autopsy report, were released to the public after the grand jury decided not to indict Mr. Wilson and made available by the Stanford University Libraries Digital Repository

This application was created by Ed Summers from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) based on his Ferguson Twitter Archive project. Ed discussed his Ferguson Twitter archive on MITH's website here.

Statement on Ferguson signed by more than 1800 sociologists (Sociologists for Justice)

A report by Jennifer Howard on a discussion panel held at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2014)

"[C]ollection of research articles used to inform the arguments in the public statement on the events in Ferguson."

Ideas from David M. Perry on "[h]ow should academics respond to the death of Michael Brown and the non-indictment of his killer" (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 25, 2014)

Twitter feeds containing #FergusonSyllabus hashtag

Department of Justice Report regarding the crimial investigation into the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson (March 4, 2015)

Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department. (March 4, 2015)

The origins of these disturbing demonstrations may lie with environmental causes. Reported by Marina Korean (National Journal, December 4, 2014)

A think piece by Caryl Rivers on confirmation bias, stereotypes, and misinformation. (The Detroit News, December 31, 2014)

An article from the Huffington Post on black activism achievements. (Huffington Post, December 22, 2015)