It's been eight months of hell in Ferguson, but things are finally changing.
Voter turnout for this week's city council election nearly triples from the previous election. Two black candidates were among three people elected to the city council. For the St. Louis suburb that has become the epicenter of a national debate about civil rights, Tuesday was the first shift from the top.
This election was big for Ferguson, where large-scale protests have taken place ever since the death of Michael Brown in August. At the time of the shooting, the city had a majority white city council and a majority white police force. Two-thirds of the approximately 21,000 residents of the city are African-American, the leadership certainly wasn't representative of the demographics Read more...
More about Election, Vote, Civil Rights, Missouri, and Us World
from Mashable http://ift.tt/1DJCCgR
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment