Danny Wicentowski

St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalist David Carson says some AI images are “clearly a copyright violation.”

The photojournalist's image of a protester throwing a tear gas canister in Ferguson was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch portfolio that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2015.

Viruses do more than get people sick. They create, Steven Thrasher writes, a “viral underclass.”

Ferguson showed what happens when a community comes together to protest power and obtain meaningful change from it, but power doesn’t like to retreat. What happens to people who feel elite, and untouchable, when the city around them rises up to…

On the last day of her monthslong retreat in Ghana, before returning home to Ferguson, Okunsola Amadou stood on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, singing a song to Yemoja, the water spirit of the Yoruba religion. “It was there, as I finished singing…

Ferguson exposed systems that disenfranchise Black St. Louisans and fail their basic mandates to provide safety, health and community to the people who depend on them. Inspired by the Uprising and driven by experience and anger, many people found…

Many people found their power and voices during the Ferguson Uprising. Some used streaming technology as they found themselves defining their own class of media, with no editors and no rules. They brought the story of the Ferguson Uprising live to…

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” It's a familiar story: An explorer landing in what is now the Bahamas, finding the "New World" and setting the stage for revolution, democracy and the world we live in today. But that is just one way to tell…

St. Louis poet and journalist Jacqui Germain’s debut full-length poetry collection, “Bittering the Wound,” takes the reader back to the tear gas-choked nights of the Ferguson protests. Germain was there in 2014 — marching with others down West…

In 2014, the path of Olajuwon Davis’ acting career in St. Louis seemed to be on an unbroken upward trajectory. But while he had managed to land notable roles on stage and screen, his life was spiraling out of control. “I was really searching for my…

Footage from a Ferguson officer's body camera blew up the cover story he told about why he punched a handcuffed man in the face. On Tuesday, now ex-cop Jackie Matthews pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating the arrestee's civil…

After an hour of listening to St. Louis’ top prosecutor, Terrion Watson approached the front of the Harris Stowe University auditorium and handed a crisp $100 bill to Kim Gardner. It was November 17, a rainy Wednesday night, and Gardner, the St.…

From the roof of his downtown apartment building, Olajuwon Davis is surrounded by his past. In front of him curves the Gateway Arch, which was once widely reported to be among his potential bombing targets before his arrest in an FBI sting operation…

In her final hour as a St. Louis homicide detective, Sgt. Heather Taylor stands in the shade of the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park. She is surrounded by blue uniforms, though she's gone casual to her own retirement. Her long maroon cardigan…

DANNY WICENTOWSKI Even under the normal circumstances of grief, five years is hardly enough time to heal. And when the subject of that grief is Michael Brown, whose death in a 2014 police shooting in Ferguson sparked protests and a national reckoning…

PHOTO BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI. MODIFIED BY EVAN SULT It is August 9, 2014. Canfield Drive. Four hours after Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, the eighteen-year-old's body is finally removed from the scene. A crowd gathers,…

DANNY WICENTOWSKI Dorian Johnson. After more than seventeen months of silence, a federal appellate court has ruled that Dorian Johnson cannot sue the Ferguson cop who confronted him and Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. It was a confrontation that…

SCREENGRAB VIA MSNBC On January 10, 2018, eleven federal judges heard arguments from both the legal team representing Dorian Johnson and the one defending the city of Ferguson and the officer who killed Michael Brown. But since then, everything has…

Ferguson was made famous in 2014 for reasons no city wants to be famous for. Five years later, city officials have hired a marketing firm to give the north county municipality a new "brand identity" — and this time, the contract is not a front for a…

The theory that some person or group is responsible for an alarming number of deaths involving Ferguson activists is nearly as old as the Ferguson movement itself. In the years since crowds took to the streets of the north county suburb to protest…