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The police shooting of an unarmed black teenager sparked unrest and national debate about systemic racism. "We are sick of being teargassed, we are sick of being shot at," a demonstrator yells during street protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. "All of these young people deserve respect and justice." A teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9 of that year in the majority-black suburb of St Louis - the fourth unarmed black man to be killed by police in the United States in a month. He was shot at least six times, his body left on the street for hours as community members watched on. The racial makeup of that police department, like many others, has not substantially or dramatically changed. Adolphus Pruitt, president of the...

On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change. Michael Brown Sr. lies stock-still on his back on the floor of an art studio in St. Louis as an artist layers papier-mache on his arms, chest, and torso. Brown Sr. is a stand-in, the model for a life-size replica that St. Louis artist Dail Chambers is creating to represent Michael Brown Jr.—his deceased son. In the days and weeks that followed, other artists added their own interpretations to the cast, and community leaders, family, friends, and activists affixed messages of remembrance, of hope, as well as photos and tributes to Brown Jr. “Although everybody else has left since your death, we are still here fighting,” o...

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Michael Brown: The Death that Shook Ferguson

Five Years After Ferguson Uprising, Still Seeking Justice and Healing