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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Committee for Freedom of the Press Letter
A letter in response to police detention and harassment of journalists, delivered to the Ferguson and St. Louis County Police departments and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Day of Protests, Night of Frenzy
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article summarizes events after day two in Ferguson.
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First Encounters in the Americas
Consider what interactions between the first Spanish explorers and Indigenous Peoples demonstrate about encountering the unfamiliar.
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Forgetting Isn't Healing
Jouranlist Sonari Glinton connects Elie Wiesel’s teachings on bearing witness to his own experiences as a black man in the United States.
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How Social Media Users Help and Harm
A CNN article explores the strengths and weaknesses of, and interplay between, professional news and amateur social media.
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Inventing Black and White
Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races.
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Officer Kills Ferguson Teen
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article summarizes what was known in the first 24 hours after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo.
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