Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, elected three African-Americans to the city council on Tuesday, during a local election that drew national interest in the wake of civil unrest sparked by the fatal shooting of a black and unarmed resident last year. For the first time in Ferguson’s 120-year history, the mostly white local government was poised to…

FERGUSON, Missouri – Lee Smith was in search of a home for his future grandchildren. With his 10 adult children preparing to start their own families, Smith and his wife left St. Louis in 1988 for the mostly white suburban towns of northern St. Louis County, where good schools seemed to promise ample opportunity and joyful…