Giving new kinds of prosecutors new tools
Published in the St. Louis American, August 20, 2020 When St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell recently announced that there would be no indictment of former Ferguson cop Darren Wilson, it ignited a range of emotions from outrage to disappointment. For many, the historic election of Bell as the county’s first African-American prosecutor would mean […]
Roger Stone, Lamar Johnson, Eric Schmitt and Kimberly Gardner
Published in St. Louis American, July 20, 2020 The man in the White House masquerading as a president flaunted his blatant disrespect of the law when he pardoned another one of his felon friends. At the same time, people like Lamar Johnson have been rotting for 25 years in a Missouri cage for a crime […]
We are not all in this together
By Jamala Rogers, April 12, 2020 If people are saying this because they think we should be or they hope we will be, they need to say it exactly so. U.S. history has shown us that we have never been all together in this country and the COVID virus is not the magical super glue […]