The Ferguson Decade: How One City's Uprising Opened America's Old Wounds

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covers a decade in the life of a divided American city reckoning with the challenge of enacting change after tumultuous civil rights protests.

On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death by a police officer, kicking off a firestorm of protests across the nation and within the wide community of St. Louis, making the city the epicenter of America’s fraught debate on racial inequality, policing, and city governance. Writing for the St. Loui...