FERGUSON, Mo. — Demonstrators broke windows at Ferguson City Hall and tried to overturn and set fire to a police car late Tuesday, the second night of violence following Monday’s announcement that there would be no criminal charges in the death of Michael Brown. Scattered confrontations with police and arrests were reported throughout the area. But…

Numerous global news outlets covered the St. Louis, Missouri, grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager by spotlighting burning police cars, looting and destroyed shops. However, some non-U.S. media used the occasion to delve into the nation’s history of racial tension. The St. Louis County grand jury’s…

For young people, Ferguson has played out as a real world history lesson. To a generation that has only experienced the civil rights movement of the 1960s through books and movies, the roiling demonstrations, protests, and violence that have gripped Ferguson and, in the process, much of the nation since the summer offer a dramatic, if…

Even as Thanksgiving beckons, the violent sights, sounds, and scenes from a night of rioting in Ferguson, Mo., linger in memories across the nation and around the world. For most of us, news and reports of this national tragedy unfolded not on our familiar streets but on our TV screens, our cell phones, and the pages…