COMMENTARY – DOMESTIC
Greg Howard, “America is Not For Black People,” Deadspin
Jelani Cobb, “Between the World and Ferguson,” The New Yorker
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Michael Brown’s Unremarkable Humanity,” The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Reparations for Ferguson,” The Atlantic
Jaeah Lee, “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” Mother Jones
Marcia Chatelain, “How to Teach Kids About What’s Happening in Ferguson,” The Atlantic
The Daily Show : Race/Off
COMMENTARY – INTERNATIONAL
Markus Feldenkirchen, “‘We’re Like Animals to Them’: An American City’s Daily Racism,” Spiegel (Germany)
Gary Younge, “In Ferguson the violence of the state created the violence of the street,” The Guardian (UK)
Gary Younge, “Ferguson’s black community must not be given the same ‘justice’ as Trayvon Martin,” The Guardian (UK)
Jonathan Watts, “From Ferguson to Rio: two black teenagers shot dead by police, two very different reactions,” The Guardian (UK)
Editorial, “A shameful history repeating itself,” The Age (Australia)
BOOKS
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
David Oshinsky’s Worse Than Slavery
Naomi Murakawa, “The Origins of the Carceral Crisis: Racial Order as ‘Law and Order’ in Postwar American Politics,” in Race and American Political Development
FILMS
LOCAL EFFORTS
#BlackLivesMatter Charleston Facebook page
Pastor Thomas Dixon’s Local Activism Facebook page