Law Forum : Ferguson Issues and Post-Michael Brown Movement (BLM) - Protests

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Latest: St. Louis protests move to upscale neighborhood


Associated PressSeptember 15, 2017


... Protesters have moved to the upscale Central West End section of St. Louis, where a large group is marching through streets chanting as people look on from restaurants and the windows of hospitals lining busy Kingshighway.

The group is attempting to march onto Interstate 64 via a nearby entrance, but a large contingent of police is blocking the path ...



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https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-st-louis-ex-police-officer-not-guilty-140015592.html

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Michael Brown’s Mother Considering A Run For City Council

| By Veronica Wells


In one memorable part of Lezley McSpadden’s, Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown, she writes about meeting Beyoncé and her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Knowles-Lawson asked Lezley what she was going to do, it was a question that stuck with McSpadden, eventually causing her to launch The Michael O.D. Brown | We Love Our Sons & Daughters Foundation ...

http://madamenoire.com/1022804/michael-browns-mother-considering-a-run-for-city-council/
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All I can do is :facepalm:

Four years after Michael Brown was shot, the neighborhood where he was killed still feels left behind

Washington Post

FERGUSON, Mo. — When Starbucks opened here in 2016, politicians celebrated, predicting that the coffee chain would revitalize a city marred by violent protests over Michael Brown's killing two years earlier. Other corporations jumped in with multimillion-dollar commitments to help rebuild the majority-black town that became a global symbol of racial and economic inequality; but four years after the unrest, nearly all of the new development is concentrated in the more prosperous — and whiter — parts of town, bypassing the predominantly black southeast neighborhood where Brown was fatally shot by a police officer while walking to his grandmother's home.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/59fb59...er-michael.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_15

 

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