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East High School students participate in a protest against the Ferguson, Missouri grand jury decision, in a busy intersection in front of the state Capitol in Denver, Wednesday Dec. 3, 2014. A grand jury's decision last week not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown has sparked demonstrations across the country. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Denver mayor tells protesting students to return to class after four days of walk-outs

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2014 photo, Darcy Edwin of Ferguson dabs paint on a brush as she begins a mural on the boards protecting Ferguson Optical on S. Florissant Road in downtown Ferguson, Mo. The Missouri History Museum and the Regional Art Commission are working to preserve art that sprung up on plywood meant to protect storefronts or cover damage from protesting in Ferguson and St. Louis. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

Museum working to preserve plywood art in Ferguson

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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) speaks at a memorial tree planting ceremony on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building in honor of Emmett Till, "a young African-American man whose brutal killing in 1955 raised public awareness that led to important civil rights reforms in our nation." , Washington, D.C., Monday, November 17, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

John Lewis says Eric Garner, Michael Brown families should be at State of Union

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sunday Nov. 30, 2014, file photo, St. Louis Rams players, from left; Stedman Bailey (12), Tavon Austin (11), Jared Cook, (89) Chris Givens (13) and Kenny Britt (81) raise their arms in awareness of the events in Ferguson, Mo., as they walk onto the field during introductions before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in St. Louis. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File)

Rams tight end Jared Cook says he’s gotten threats over ‘hands up’ gesture

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and the first family stands, right, after lighting the 2014 National Christmas Tree during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CHARLES HURT: Racism taints Christmas season

By Charles Hurt

Charles Barkley, former NBA player. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Charles Barkley doubles down on Ferguson: ‘We as black people, we have a lot of crooks’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat (Associated Press/FILE)

FERGUSON AND OBAMA: The question of race and what to do about it

By Rusty Humphries

Mike Ditka speaks during an interview at the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII media center in New York on Jan. 29, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mike Ditka on Ferguson: ‘I don’t want to hear about this hands-up crap’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A television news reporter conducts a broadcast outside the Buzz Westfall Justice Center where a grand jury is expected to convene Monday to consider possible charges against the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, in Clayton, Mo. Ferguson and the St. Louis region are on edge in anticipation of the announcement by a grand jury whether to criminally charge officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. (AP Photo/David Goldman) **FILE**

CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Ferguson coverage brings out the worst in reporters, pundits

By Christopher Harper

In this Aug. 23, 2014, file photo, demonstrators march to protest the death of Eric Garner in the Staten Island borough of New York. An attorney for Officer Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City police officer involved in the chokehold death of Garner, said he spent about two hours on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, giving his account of the videotaped death of Garner to a grand jury. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Daniel Pantaleo-Eric Garner police killing case hits grand jury

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Louis Head, center front, Michael Brown's stepfather, and Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden, wearing sunglasses, react as they listen to the announcement that a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who fatally shot Brown, in this Nov. 24, 2014, file photo. St. Louis County Police said Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 that authorities want to talk to Head about his angry comments as part of a broader investigation into arson, vandalism and looting that followed the Nov. 24 grand jury announcement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Louis Head, Michael Brown’s stepfather, investigated for ‘Burn this [expletive] down’ comment

By Jim Salter - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BEN CARSON: Ferguson falls victim to outside agitators, manipulators

By Ben S. Carson

Special-education teacher Kaitlin O'Connell is prepared for an IV by Dr. Matthew Stebulis, (left) in preparation for surgery to remove a kidney as her mother Susan O'Connell looks on at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass., on Oct. 21, 2014. O'Connell donated the kidney to 52-year-old Richard Finlay, a parent of students at the Page Hilltop Elementary School, in Ayer, Mass., where she works. (Associated Press/Sentinel &amp; Enterprise, John Love) **FILE**

New rules to change some people’s wait for kidney

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Michael Brown’s bad choices led to police shooting death in Ferguson

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Lesley McSpadden, second from right, Michael Brown's mother, is comforted outside the Ferguson police department as St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch conveys the grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of her son, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen) **FILE**

CHARLES HURT: Empty promises in wake of Ferguson

By Charles Hurt