When 24-year-old Danyé Jones was found hanging from a tree in St. Louis County in 2018, police declared it a suicide. But his Ferguson frontline activist mother Melissa grabbed headlines with her viral post alleging her son had in fact died by lynching. Who was right? Starting only six weeks after Danyé died, journalists John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski spent two and a half years working with his mother, family members, close friends and many in the activist community to follow the trail and find out what exactly happened to him. After the Uprising is the result, an unforgettable 11-episode...
Everything wraps up with Melissa and the podcasts allying with state Senator Maria Chappelle Nadal to try to get new evidence to first black prosecutor Wesley Bell, and Danyé's case reopened.
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Published 08/24/21
In the penultimate episode, "theory" sessions attempt to tease out how Danyé's final hours may have gone done.
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Published 08/17/21