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‘It’s Powerful’: The State of the Movement Post-Ferguson in St. Louis
#Delrawn Small, #Alton Sterling, #Philando Castile, #Alva Braziel, #Korryn Gaines, #Paul O’Neal. These are just a few of the names of men and women killed during interactions with police over the last six weeks, but it all started two years ago with #MikeBrown. On Aug. 9, two summers ago, Michael Brown Jr. was shot and…
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2 Years After Ferguson, Mo., the Fight Grows, Goes On for Black Lives Matter
It’s been two years since the killing of an 18-year-old unarmed African-American teen named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., who was Gunned down by a white police officer named Darren Wilson. The killing sparked two weeks of protest from unarmed Black Lives Matter demonstrators carrying signs proclaiming, “I am Mike Brown” and “Hands up, don’t…