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- It's been 10 years since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the national reckoning of the often tense relationship between law enforcement Black people.
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Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Fri,08/16/24-1:24PM , 364 Reads
Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South.
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- Shalomyah Bowers, a board member of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, stands for a photo before a welcome dinner for the annual Families United 4 Justice Network Conference in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The event was hosted by the foundation at its mansion. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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At Black Lives Matter house, families are welcomed into space of freedom and healing
By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press
Tue,11/21/23-11:14PM , 498 Reads
STUDIO CITY, California (AP) — Some of the mystery and controversy shrouding a sprawling Los Angeles-area property owned by a national Black Lives Matter nonprofit have dissipated for dozens of families grieving a loved one killed by police.
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- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Actor-singer Sammy Davis Jr. is at bottom right. (AP Photo/File)
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At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Tue,08/22/23-11:05PM , 351 Reads
Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

But they didn’t feel no ways tired, as the Black spiritual says. The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls.
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Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Wed,08/09/23-6:19AM , 670 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of hip-hop, plugging turntables into a light post and converting an outdoor basketball court into a discotheque may have seemed like a simple invitation to party.
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