Michael Brown

Education

Segregation hasn’t gone away

Segregation in education hasn’t gone away and is more alive than we might think. Ferguson, Mo., where Michael Brown was shot by a police officer last year, provides an example of both segregation and racial tension. More about that in a minute. Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of […]

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Social Issues

Why black parents have “the talk” with their kids

I don’t know if Michael Brown presented a life-threatening situation to police officer Darren Wilson, and I don’t know if Wilson’s shooting of Brown was racially motivated. I don’t know if the grand jury in St. Louis got it right by not indicting Wilson, and I don’t know if St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch

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