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A Look Back on the Death of Mike Brown in Ferguson

In this reposting of an August 2018 article, we remember 18-year-old Mike Brown, whose death at the hands of a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9, 2014 sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

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St. Louis Police Chant ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ While Arresting Protesters

Sunday marked the third day of protests following the acquittal of ex-St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 killing of Black motorist Anthony Lamar Smith.