The latest news and comment on the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
February 2023
Families of Tyre Nichols and George Floyd to attend State of the Union
Close relatives of Black people killed by police invited to Biden’s address by more than a dozen members of Congress
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
June 2020
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Incendiary Art: Ferguson, 2014 by Patricia Smith
The Guardian view on the death of George Floyd: a turning point?
August 2019
Until the Flood review – fleshed-out fictions from a real-life killing
Dael Orlandersmith transforms into her characters, dispassionately inhabiting their reactions to the shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white policeman
The Guardian picture essay
Ferguson: five years on from the police shooting of Michael Brown
The fatal shooting on 9 August 2014 was followed by months of protests. Five years on, the legacy of that shooting of a black teenager by a white officer depends on who you talk to. Photographs by Jeff Roberson/AP. Co-written by Jeff Roberson and Jim Salter.
'We saw him lying in the street': how a police killing changed our lives
On 9 August 2014 police in Missouri killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. We asked his peers from the same neighborhood to recall that day – and discuss how they’ve moved on
August 2017
Whose Streets? Powerful Ferguson film focuses on ‘flashpoint moment’
Michael Brown was shot three years ago. America still hasn't changed
Steven W Thrasher
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
March 2017
Prosecutor says film’s edit of Michael Brown shooting distorts incident
Michael Brown shooting: new footage raises questions – video
January 2017
They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter by Wesley Lowery – review
The long read
Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement
October 2016
The counted
Virginia police shootings: ‘We missed an opportunity to stop him'
In 2011, Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin shot an unarmed man dead. Last year he did it again. The fight to get him convicted is the subject of a new film
August 2016
Shortcuts
The alternative VMAs: from best selfie to most overanalysed kiss
Gunshots in Ferguson after car hits protester on Michael Brown anniversary
July 2016
The Guardian view on shootings in the US: time to tackle problems shamefully ignored
Editorial: Deaths at police hands and the killing of officers in Dallas highlight longstanding racial tensions and a stubborn attachment to guns
May 2016
#SayHerName: why Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting for forgotten women
More than 70 black women have died at the hands of the police in the past three years. Professor and activist Crenshaw, who coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in the 1980s, is determined they will not be forgotten
April 2016
Ferguson appoints veteran Miami officer Delrish Moss as new police chief
Veteran police major hopes to heal Missouri city in the aftermath of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown and a damning federal report on policing practices
The Guardian picture essayFerguson: five years on from the police shooting of Michael BrownThe fatal shooting on 9 August 2014 was followed by months of protests. Five years on, the legacy of that shooting of a black teenager by a white officer depends on who you talk to. Photographs by Jeff Roberson/AP. Co-written by Jeff Roberson and Jim Salter.
