Civil unrest could emerge as 2016 election issue

Over the past six months since violence erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting death of an unarmed black man, the nation has been engaged in an ongoing, at times tedious, dialogue about race. The conversation began anew in recent days when Baltimore, Maryland was overcome by riots following the death of another black man while in police custody.

We’ve learned a lot about our leaders in government and how our media report on race. We’ve also learned that electing the country’s first black president wasn’t the magic cure-all for racial strife that some had hoped it would be.