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The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by FPD officer Darren Wilson.
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action is a 2019 book authored by Vicky Osterweil and published by Bold Type Books. [2] Osterweil wrote the book in response to the Ferguson unrest in 2014 and 2015. [3] In the book, Osterweil argues that looting is a valid method of wealth redistribution. [2] [4]
Poet Nicole Sealey wrote The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, a book length erasure [292] of the Ferguson Report [293] which comments on the Killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent Ferguson unrest. Her poem "Pages 22–29", an excerpt from the book, won a Forward Prize for Poetry in October 2021. [294]
On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told ...
Whose Streets? is a 2017 American documentary film about the killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson uprising.Directed by Sabaah Folayan and co-directed by Damon Davis, Whose Streets? premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, then was released theatrically in August, 2017, for the anniversary of Brown's death.
Edward Crawford, a St. Louis resident who was the subject of an iconic photo epitomizing the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, is dead. Crawford was photographed throwing a flaming tear gas ...
Between the World and Me is Coates's second book, following his 2008 memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Since then, and especially in the 18 months including the Ferguson unrest preceding his new book's release, Coates somberly believed less in the soul and its aspirational sense of eventual justice. Coates felt that he had become more radicalized.
For many Asian Americans, Ferguson unrest set them on a path of resistance and reflection By TERRY TANG Associated Press Like a lot of people, Ellen Lo Hoffman was shocked and disturbed by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer a decade ago this month.