Ferguson's Elections, Post-Protests

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 9, 2015

Jeffrey Smith, assistant professor of politics and advocacy at The New School's Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, former Missouri state senator serving inner city St. Louis and the author of Ferguson in Black and White (Kindle Single, 2014), talks about the city council elections in Ferguson (the first since the protests over the police shooting) and whether the election of two African Americans bodes well for solving some of the problems the Justice Department found in its study of the St. Louis suburb.

 

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