Two black candidates win Ferguson council seats as turnout doubles

Unofficial results of the Ferguson City Council election, the first since Michael Brown's fatal police shooting brought the city's racial tensions to the national stage, have two black candidates taking seats on the nearly all-white dais. This means the six-member council, for the first time, will likely have equal white and black representation

Ferguson's council currently has one black member. More than two-thirds of the city's population of 22,000 people is black.

The election comes as the city continues to heal after white former police officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Brown in August, prompting temporary rioting and since then perennial protests. Wilson was not indicted for Brown's death, but the killing prompted a scathing Department of Justice report that details a history of racial bias in the police department. Read more...

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