| Politics Friday September 25, 2015  ASSOCIATED PRESS For the past year, thanks to readers across the country, we were able to stay in Ferguson, Missouri, even as the cable vans packed up and reporters headed off to the next national event.
With readers' help, The Huffington Post plans to stay for another year. Partnered with The St. Louis American, we've set up another campaign, and we hope you'll decide to back it once again.
Go here to support the Ferguson project -- and share it with others.
One year, of course, was not enough to see the work of Ferguson through. Just last month, we learned from Mariah Stewart, the reporter whose year-long work was crowdfunded by readers, that St. Louis County authorities were charging protesters swept up by police in the 2014 unrest -- including many of those seen in iconic images -- just under the statute of limitation. Very few of them had done anything other than peacefully protest.
In that moment, we realized that we couldn't leave Ferguson yet.
To back this project, and to let St. Louis County leaders know that they're still being watched, visit the Beacon Reader, where you can make either a one-time or a monthly recurring contribution.
If we do this project for a second year, we won't be doing it alone. Partway through Stewart's first year, HuffPost struck up a partnership with The St. Louis American, an iconic African-American weekly newspaper published continuously since 1928. Stewart gained a physical newsroom, an all-important desk and colleagues in close proximity, while her work was cross-published on the American's site and in print. |
