A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma, addiction, suicide
With 377 school shootings since Columbine, Americans are still reckoning with the real toll of these attacks
July 2020
Michael Brown shooting: officer will not be charged, top prosecutor says
St Louis county official says his ‘heart breaks’ for teen’s parents as he announces decision over 2014 police shooting
August 2019
The Guardian picture essay
Ferguson: five years on from the police shooting of Michael Brown
'We saw him lying in the street': how a police killing changed our lives
April 2019
The long read
‘I learned hope the hard way’: on the early days of Black Lives Matter
The long read: Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t ready to hear it. Protest is meant to build a community, and to force a response
October 2018
Where does police brutality fit in America's first law enforcement museum?
The Washington institution is likely to spark debate over whether it gets the tone right in an era of police shootings and allegations of racism
September 2018
New St Louis prosecutor vows change in county still grieving from Michael Brown's death
Wesley Bell stunned Bob McCulloch, who held the post for nearly three decades, including during the police killing of an unarmed black teen
May 2018
From Windrush to Grenfell, the powerful only see tragedy when it suits them
Gary Younge
The pattern is clear. The privileged looks the other way until outrage about a specific injustice injects a sense of urgency, says Guardian columnist Gary Younge
February 2018
From the Green Book to Facebook, how black people still need to outwit racists in rural America
A historical travel guide once listed safe pit stops for black motorists. When a family sought similar advice last year, they were deluged with replies
September 2017
Lawyer urged prosecutor after Ferguson shooting: 'Do the right thing' for police
St Louis protests: three years since Ferguson, why hasn't anything changed?
August 2017
Whose Streets? Powerful Ferguson film focuses on ‘flashpoint moment’
Directors Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis spent more than a year in Ferguson after the death of Michael Brown, bearing witness to the protests that followed
May 2017
'It feels important': the counter-narrative artist challenging how news is reported
Alexandra Bell’s carefully redacted prints of New York Times articles question the ‘deliberate choices’ that are made in the newsroom
April 2017
In one Facebook post, St Louis-area residents list 80 unsolved murders
When Shana Tolliver asked friends to identify cases, the response spurred calls for change amid tension between African American neighborhoods and police
March 2017
Prosecutor says film’s edit of Michael Brown shooting distorts incident
Michael Brown shooting: new footage raises questions – video
February 2017
The fire this time – the legacy of James Baldwin
His work fell foul of civil-rights-era binary racial and sexual politics but, as a new film shows, now Baldwin’s ideas are used to explain everything from Trump to Black Lives Matter
January 2017
They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery – review
The American reporter’s account of the birth of the BLM movement is well researched but doesn’t quite bring the protesters to life
Whose Streets? review: searing film gives a voice to the people of Ferguson
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’s outstanding documentary, which has premiered at Sundance, gets to the heart of the St Louis suburb rocked by the police shooting of Michael Brown
The long read
Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement
The long read: The killing of Michael Brown created a new generation of black activists, with thousands taking to the streets, and a hashtag used more than 27m times. But will the movement survive the Trump era?
