[Content Note: Police brutality; racism; white supremacy; lynching.]
Here is some difficult but important recommended reading that sets what happened, and what is ongoing, in Ferguson in context, both currently and historically:
Jelani Cobb: Between the World and Ferguson
Joseph Shapiro: In Ferguson, Court Fines and Fees Fuel Anger
Adam Serwer: Eighty Years of Fergusons
Tamura Lomax: For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton, and All Other Black Mothers Who've Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain't Enough
Natasha Chart: Want Peace? Killing Black People Needs to Be Treated as a Crime
And finally, a current report from the AP: Ferguson Shooting Protests Move to St. Louis.
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