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[Liveblog] Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Ferguson Teach-In

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown — an unarmed black teen — was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Today, in the Salomon Center at Brown University, there will be a discussion of the recent events in Ferguson, through a panel discussion and Q&A from the audience. According to Brown.edu, the panelists include:
Stefano Bloch, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Urban Studies Program and Cogut Center for the Humanities;
Anthony Bogues, director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice;
Marcia Chatelain, assistant professor of history, Georgetown University;
Richard Locke, director, Watson Institute for International Studies;
James Morone, director, Taubman Center for Public Policy;
Tricia Rose, director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
See the liveblog below the author bio, at the bottom of the page below

About the Author

Benjamin Koatz is a third-year from New York City. He enjoys dancing, singing, social justice, computer science and freedom. Political Science and Economics are his guilty pleasures and, when he's not dropping mixtapes or fighting the drug war, he spends much of his free time reading books on theory and articles online. He is a former Editor-in-Chief, now a US writer, and hopes to contribute his skills towards making the publication fair and balanced (lol), and interesting and generally super awesome.

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