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Near Ferguson, Ghosts of Hiroshima Haunt Fuming Landfill

April 15, 2016

by Josh Peterson Urban News Service BRIDGETON, Mo. – Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental. An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This subterranean inferno threatens to sicken area residents, just 10 miles from the site of the controversial, police-involved death […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bridgeton Landfill, Ferguson MO, Josh Peterson, Landfill Odors, Nuclear Waste, West Lake Landfill

Ferguson – One Year Later

August 14, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — It’s been one year since the murder of Michael Brown galvanized the Ferguson, Mo. community and forced the nation to face the horrors of police violence. And as the activist slogan asserts, the ensuing protests have become a movement, not just a moment. “One of the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: August 14 2015, Cheeraz Gormon, Ferguson MO, Jazelle Hunt, Mapping Police Violence.org, Michael Brown, Police Violence, Vol. 25 No. 31

Talking about Tony: How Schools Here and in Ferguson are Helping Students Deal with Recent Deaths

May 22, 2015

Talking about Tony: How Schools Here and in Ferguson are Helping Students Deal with Recent Deaths

By Jen Anderson May 22, 2015       In response to the recent shooting of young Tony Robinson earlier this year, students in the Madison area are finding a safe haven to share their voices and emotions without stepping outside the walls of their schools.   In an announcement at a news conference last […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ferguson MO, MAY 22 2015, Michael Brown, Police Violence, Tony Robinson, VOL. 25 NO. 19

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Time to End Mass Incarceration

April 24, 2015

Time to End Mass Incarceration

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist April 24, 2015   Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist     Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and others who remain trapped in poverty and disillusionment. How is it that the richest nation on earth and […]

Popular Interests In This Article: APRIL 24 2015, Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Discrimination, Ferguson MO, Incarceration, VOL. 25 NO. 15

Counting the Victims of Police Violence

April 17, 2015

Counting the Victims of Police Violence

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent April 17, 2015   Attorney General Holder cited lack of U.S. data tracking use of force against and by police. Credit: Department of Justice     “Particularly in the Midwest, and then a little bit in the South, there really are hotbeds for police violence.”     WASHINGTON, D.C. […]

Popular Interests In This Article: APRIL 17 2015, Eric Holder, Ferguson MO, Mapping Police Violence.org, Police Shootings, Police Violence, Samuel Sinyangwe, VOL. 25 NO. 14

Police Deny Using Excessive Force in Ferguson Suspect Arrest

March 20, 2015

Police Deny Using Excessive Force in Ferguson Suspect Arrest

By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press March 20, 2015     CLAYTON, MISSOURI (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused of shooting two officers in Ferguson are “completely false.”   Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas on Monday suggested police may have roughed up […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Excessive Force, Ferguson MO, Jeffrey Williams, Jon Belmar, MARCH 20 2015, St. Louis County Police, Tom Jackson, VOL. 25 NO. 10

Ferguson, MO Police Chief Resigns

March 13, 2015

Ferguson, MO Police Chief Resigns

By Jim Salter, Associated Press March 13, 2015   In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson releases the name of the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. On Friday, March 6, 2015, Jackson is still on the job, two days after a government report criticized his […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Eric Holder, Ferguson MO, James Knowles III, Justice Department, MARCH 13 2015, Michael Brown, Racial Profiling, Thomas Jackson, VOL. 25 NO. 9

Anniversary of Selma March Rekindles Ferguson Comparisons

March 13, 2015

Anniversary of Selma March Rekindles Ferguson Comparisons

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press March 13, 2015   In this March 13, 1965 file photo, a line of police officers hold back demonstrators who attempted to march to the courthouse in Selma, Ala. Police kept the demonstrators hemmed up in a square block area where they attempted several times to break through. (AP […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Anniversary, Black Lives Matter, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Ferguson MO, MARCH 13 2015, Selma March, Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC, VOL. 25 NO. 9, Voting Rights Act VRA

Police Killings Underscore Need for Reform

February 13, 2015

Police Killings Underscore Need for Reform

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent February 13, 2015   People participate in a protest in response to the grand jury’s decision in the Eric Garner case in Times Square in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. The grand jury cleared the white New York City police officer Wednesday in the video taped chokehold death […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bill de Blasio, Eric Garner, FEBRUARY 13 2015, Ferguson MO, Incarceration Rates, Marc Mauer, Michael Brown, Police Killings, The Sentencing Project, VOL. 25 NO. 5

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

The larger Issue Ignored

January 23, 2015

By Srijan Sen January 23, 2015     Every now and then a nation experiences dramatic social change due to internal or external conflict. Countries like Russia, France, South Africa, Germany, India and China have gone through historical change through public introspection and overhaul of domestic and foreign policy. Smaller nations currently undergoing sociopolitical change […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Derek Williams, Discrimination, Dontre Hamilton, Ferguson MO, George Zimmerman, JANUARY 23 2015, Michael Brown, Social Disintegration, Trayvon Martin, VOL. 25 NO. 3

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