The painter didn’t see many portraits of Black subjects on the walls of the St. Louis Art Museum. So he put them there.

Ferguson City Council member Wesley Bell successfully challenged St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch, as organizers and voters shout #ByeBob.

Nicole D. Nelson: “All of this is exhausting. The insensitivity. The mockery of real struggle and pain. The disregard. The arrogance.”

Jason Stockley will not face punishment for fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.

“State interference in city minimum wage laws stems from a larger Jim Crow legacy of blocking economic policies that primarily benefit communities of color.”

Activists: “Companies can either snatch back our raise and take food out of the mouths of children, or they can do the right thing by honoring the St. Louis wage increase and paying us at least $10 an hour.”

Former officer Jason Stockley faces first-degree murder charges for his role in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights examined body-worn camera policies in 50 municipalities. It was not impressed.

The videos seem to show that Braziel and Small—two of the latest Black men to die from police gunshots—were less of a threat to officers than previously reported.

The prosecutor says there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the shooting was not in self defense.

Organization for Black Struggle regarding the death of Kajieme Powell at the hands of St. Louis police: “Police authorities should not be the community’s only resource when mental and social service crisis happen.”

This church, located in a predominantly African-American neighborhood, is the seventh in the St. Louis area to fall victim to arson in just two weeks.

The church burnings echo a string of similar burnings across the South this summer. 

In the case of Bernard Scott, who was jailed for a series of minor traffic offenses, prison officers at Missouri’s Pine Lawn Jail wouldn’t release him to an ER. Scott eventually fell into a coma, and officials said that he tried to commit suicide, but he lived.  

St. Louis circuit attorney opens independent investigation into the police-involved shooting.

Ahead of new legislation that will revamp municipal courts systems all over Missouri, Ferguson’s head judge withdraws arrest warrants for nearly 10,000 people.

Killer Mike and his Run the Jewels Bandmate El-P spoke to the BBC about the anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing, performing in St. Louis when the verdict to not convict Officer Wilson came down, and the history of riots as political strategy in America