Memorials, protests in Ferguson on the sixth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death

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Memorials, protests in Ferguson on the sixth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death

By Bryce Gray and Rachel Rice St. Louis Post-Dispatch FERGUSON — About 100 people gathered in a Ferguson street Sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the shooting death of local teenager Michael Brown by a police officer — an event that not only resonated throughout the community, but came to ignite a national movement […]

Source: The Birmingham Times

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