Tag: Ferguson

  • Sunday Salon: A Round-Up of Online Reading

    Sunday Salon: A Round-Up of Online Reading

    It saddens me to need to publish another all Ferguson edition of Sunday Salon. I read very widely online this week, and these are the pieces that resonated the most with me.   Ferguson: Contexts, Commentary, the Classroom Roxanne Gay’s Only Words was one of the best pieces I read this week. There are absolutely no…

  • Why I’m Only Tweeting About Ferguson and Mike Brown Today

    Why I’m Only Tweeting About Ferguson and Mike Brown Today

    Visit Two Writing Teachers to read other Slice of Life posts. I can’t stop looking at this photo of an unarmed man with his hands up confronted by police in Ferguson, Missouri. It’s come across my Twitter feed a hundred times in the last twelve hours. This is the caption that stops me short: America.…