A tornado just came through Black St. Louis and destroyed it. No, decimated it. I thought I was going to die, as did many others.
Police killing Black people in the area was so widespread and common that one would be hard-pressed to find a family that hadn't been touched by it.
For the eighth episode of the 'Witness to History' podcast, Tef Poe, the St. Louis poet and MC, addresses what called him to Ferguson's streets after Michael Brown was killed.
If Black Lives Matter was the Word, then Ferguson was the Word made Flesh.
Although John Collins Muhammad pleaded guilty to bribery, the process struck a harsh chord with Black community members who remembered the grand jury not indicting killer police officer Darren Wilson.
Tory Russell, who led the Ferguson Uprising, sat down with mother of the movement, Momma Julia, who loved and protected protesters.
Ferguson Uprising organizer Tory Russell discusses the generational impact of police violence on Black communities.
How could slaves ever "benefit" from slavery when Black people were already ironworkers, farmers, carpenters, political scientists and more dating back thousands of years in Africa?
Activist Tory Russell, who spent time with Harry Belafonte joining protesters in Ferguson, explains "why Mr. B. showed up" in 2014.
It is not a new Black Lives Matter movement separate from the 1960s. We are fighting in the Black freedom movement that our ancestors started fighting when the first colonizers attempted to capture them.Â
