12 episodes
After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones iHeart True Crime
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4.8 • 9 Ratings
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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 investigative podcast series that documents every shocking twist and turn in the investigation. The take-away: almost seven years after the Black Lives Matter movement was launched from this place, something is still terribly wrong in North County.
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A Fair Shake
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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Hypothesis & Conjecture
In the penultimate episode, "theory" sessions attempt to tease out how Danyé's final hours may have gone done.
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Not Paranoid, Stressed
New discoveries lead our hosts more deeply back into the suicide theory.
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The Streets Was Gonna Handle It
The opening of Danyé's cell phone leads deeply into the man himself.
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Navy Knots
Melissa seeks the bed sheet used in her son's death, intent on finding the origins of additional DNA. The death of George Floyd changes everything -- or maybe nothing at all?
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She Said, She Said
The 5-year anniversary of the Ferguson movement sees Melissa reunited with other activists. The hosts finally connect with Danye's ex, who may lead them into unlocking his phone.
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Important information that needs to be brought into the public light. But disappointing that the podcasters felt that “coming full circle“ to where Melissa is fighting against a system that has licks and closed ranks to prevent the truth from coming fwd was an acceptable ending according to the writers.
Melissa, you and your family are in my thoughts. I wish you had found out more answers about the loss of your son. I hope the systemically racist police system in Missouri becomes dismantled through the public spotlight that stories like yours that expose the racism, corruption, and basic ineptitude that exists.
#defund the police #blacklivesmatter