Author: jflory

Among the great strengths of our university are the bonds that hold us together. During troubling times, we call on each other for support and look for opportunities to grow.

Young people nowadays would stand to benefit from those of us with resources to listen to them, and to employ our assets in accord with their interests.

Brown’s death has become a marker: shorthand for an array of urban and suburban ills.

What we are experiencing is an American problem; we are in dire need of civility to move us to resolution.

The seemingly innate biases so many of us carry have not eroded — they still abound in our daily lives and the world around us.

The stakes are high for Marvel and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates to do Black Panther well.

Stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth, knowing that we all will be free one day.

A discussion on the intersectionality of #BlackLivesMatter, living and teaching in St. Louis a year after Mike Brown’s killing.

It is important for us to consider long-term goals. But it is also clear we need emergency intervention.

There are many Fergusons on the horizon. Herein lies America’s challenge, as well as her opportunity.

The issues that affect us may be different, but no deed is too small if everyone is contributing to improve the world we live in.

Hopeless situations need not stay that way. But meaningful change requires more than structural fixes, legal fights, and opinion pieces.

Together, [my son] and I got him and me through his teen years, the years that Michael Brown would not live through.

The choice of voting procedure can have a profound impact on whether an elected body is representative of its constituency.

No one should have to teach their children this in the USA.

We must demand just, fair and compassionate treatment for all youth.

How do I prepare a jewel of five years for a lifetime of society that is not prepared for him?

The Black Lives Matter movement is calling for fundamental change. But all elites are offering is tepid reform.

Ferguson continues to work toward healing and define common goals, in many cases with the help of religious leaders and institutions.

Pursuing justice requires more than reading, lamenting, writing, and speaking.

The public forum is essential to our democratic experiment.

It is important to restore both fairness and the appearance of fairness to the grand jury process.

To the world, it seemed as if Ferguson and St. Louis were rapidly descending into hell.

The knowledge, passion and commitment of our students, faculty and staff are needed now, more than ever.

We stand for justice by engaging the spectrum of political action.

Local faith leaders want unity for all people.

The single most important question St. Louis faces is: “What now?”

The law that structures our society kills people. Some of the people it kills are innocent.

Challenging racism requires more than just changing the actions of individual political agents.

Giving “all” of the evidence to the grand jury without any recommendation from the prosecutor presents at least two potential problems.